Two of the pillars used in support of the conventional chronology of ancient history have been the Carbon-14 dating method and astronomical dating methods. In recent years it has been recognized that there are many problems with the C-14 method and that the results of C-14 analysis are often discarded when they do not yield expected results. Velikovsky's attempt to penetrate the secret workings of the scholastic establishment shows that not all problems of the C-14 method are technical ones. Both Velikovsky and Courville as well as other writers have exposed the weaknesses and inadequacies of the astronomical methods used to establish certain dates in Egypt's ancient history. With these two so-called "pillars" removed, the conventional chronology of ancient times loses some of its awesome sanctity and we can feel much less inhibited about considering the alternative presently worked out by Velikovsky, Courville, and others. The only other possible source of conflict with Biblical chronology is the eduration of man's pre-historic periods is evolutionary bias. If we dispose of the unfounded myth that man evolved from ape-like animals over a period of millions of years, then there is no reason why the cultural developoments that occurred during the pre-historic ages could not have occurred ove a relatively short interval of time.