The poem on Sitchin's website is cute. But it sounds too worshippish (new word?) for me. I don't think Sitchin's intentions are to start a new religion with blind followers looking to him for all the answers. He does want to make everyone aware of the possibilities, and who wouldn't? But when we start accepting everything he says without question, Sitchinism becomes a religion and loses any of the credibility it may have accumulated. People tend to blindly follow, for reasons that others have explained well. That is one of the reasons he is very hesitant to give a return date for PlanetX until he is absolutely positive, other than to say that it is definitely not 2003 (from what I can gather, it would be circa 3400AD). From the little I have read about Sitchin as a person, he is a reclusive-type who does not want this adoration.

I prefer to submit his theory to healthy skepticism and see how it holds up. But one must not start with the premise that ET's are impossible, because if you do, his theory cannot work. I don't think many people believe ET's are impossible, and due to credible UFO reports throughout history, most people do believe they are possible, if not likely. So far, IMHO, Sitchin's theory has held up very well, other than the argument that his translations don't always agree with the mainstream. But that's a difficult argument considering that any ground-breaking theory will disagree with the mainstream belief at the time. That's why it's ground-breaking.