Alice-in-Wonderland adj
fantastic; irrational
Etymology: C20 alluding to the absurdities of Wonderland in Lewis Carroll’s book [CED]

Alice-in-Wonderland adj.
Illusory; unreal: “One wonders if historians… are caught up in an Alice-in-Wonderland world of their own making” (Zara Steiner). [AHD4]

‘But of course,’ she said, ‘it’s very unexpected for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, but the gospel is simply a catalogue of unexpected things. It’s not to be expected that an ox and an ass should worship at the crib. Animals are always doing the oddest things in the lives of the saints. It’s all part of the poetry, the Alice-in-Wonderland side, of religion.’

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1945

「それはもちろん、駱駝が針の孔を通り抜けるなどということは考えられません。でも福音書は、考えられないことばかり並べた目録といってもいいほどですからね。牛と驢馬とがまぐさ桶に寝ている赤子を拝む、などというのも同じことです。聖徒たちの伝記のなかでは、動物はいつも不思議なことばかりしています。そういうことはすべて、宗教の詩的な面、不思議の国のアリス的な側面なのです」

イーヴリン・ウォー『回想のブライヅヘッド』，小野寺健 訳，岩波文庫，pp.244-245

Of course, the fact that the eoliths are sometimes found by themselves had already been reported by Prestwich. All this reveals much about scientific discussion concerning anomalous evidence. Scientists whose preconceptions dispose them to reject certain evidence often tend to repeat their objections even after they have been met with apparently adequate responses, as if the response had never been made. Doctrinaire scientists also set conditions they believe should be met, even when such conditions have already been met. All of this makes for an Alice-in-Wonderland type of discourse: “My dear sir, I have found crudely chipped stone tools alone.” “Well sir, I really think you should find these chipped stone tools alone.” “But I have sir.” “Then you very well should do so, or I shall never believe you.” Or […]

Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson, Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race, 1993