Karla Turner - abductee and ufologist

[Beekeeper]

You can find criticisms by Jason Colavito http://jcolavito.tripod.com/lostcivilizations/id14.html or Rob Havernik http://www.skepdic.com/essays/sitchin.htm if you don't like Heiser. I don't know if they're any less Christian in outlook. In Heiser's defense, he did write an open letter to Sitchen who declined a response http://www.sitchiniswrong.com/letter/letter.htm

[CFTraveler]

This said, for me it is however striking that many of his critics come from a purely Christian or religionist / apologist perspective (maybe even fundamentalist, literalist?), including Mr Heiser:

The thing is, that, as someone who actually studied anthropology in college, I can tell you that usually the type of people that study this subject (ancient sumerian languages and biblical archaeology, for example) are usually clergy, or religious people that want to study the science or research behind the things that they have always held sacred. Some move away from a belief background and some others don't- but, for example, you can set aside Dr. Heiser's theist beliefs and look at the evidence he showed- the actual grammar of the language, the specific tablets in which the data appears, and his credentials- his specific area of study- and you can see he knows what he's talking about, while Sitchin, for example, makes up stuff and quotes tablets that don't exist to fit a theory.
Heiser may not like what he finds here and there (and if you listened to the whole thing all the way to the end, you'll see this) but he doesn't lie or hide evidence, he simply says why he doesn't like it.

[Beekeeper]

http://www.2012hoax.org/nibiru#toc0