Ben Carson: Egyptian pyramids were used to store grain, not Pharaohs' tombs
 

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Egypt’s pyramids were built by the biblical Joseph to store grain and were not, as archaeologists believe, tombs for pharaohs, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson has said.

The retired neurosurgeon, who is seeking his party’s nomination for the White House, made these remarks in a 1998 address at Andrews University, a Michigan school associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to which he belongs, in a video posted on Buzzfeed on Wednesday.

The church is a conservative evangelical Christian one.

“My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain,” Carson – who last week overtook Republican rival Donald Trump for the first time in a national poll – told graduates in his address.

“Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it.

“And I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time to store that much grain.”

Asked on Wednesday if he still held these views, Carson told CBS News: “It’s still my belief, yes.”

Speaking to MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, rival Republican Trump said: “He’s informed me about the pyramids. I think I’ll have to put that in my repertoire about Ben. That was a strange deal.”

In his 1998 address, Carson said: “And when you look at the way that the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they’d have to be that way for various reasons.

“And various of scientists have said, ‘Well, you know there were alien beings that came down and they have special knowledge and that’s how, you know, it doesn’t require an alien being when God is with you’.”

In the old testament book of Genesis, Joseph, one of the 12 sons of Jacob, was said to have “stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure”.

After seven years of plenty, the story in Genesis says, Egypt suffered seven years of famine, during which Joseph was able to feed the people with the grain he had stored.

Carson has spoken often about his faith, saying recently of his critics: “They say, ‘Carson, you know, how can you be a surgeon, a neurosurgeon, and believe that God created the Earth, and not believe in evolution, which is the basis of all knowledge and all science?’ …

“But I do believe God created us, and I did just fine … And in fact, the more you know about God, and the deeper your relationship with God, I think the more intricate becomes your knowledge of the way things work, including the human body.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...pharoahs-tombs

If Trump is going to start directly cracking on people's whacky religious beliefs, I really may have to consider supporting him.

So he's established that, in all things not relating to being a neurosurgeon, he is a complete and utter dunce. And his supporters seem to like that about him. It's surreal.

I wonder if he is a young earther. Maybe he attributes the Grand Canyon to the Great Flood.

My "own personal theory" is that the brain is full of gooey caramel and candy goodness. He would have to respect that because it is my own personal theory.

Well, at least we know where he stands. The mystery of the Pyramids was high on my list of election issues.

Side note....did anyone have the Pyraminx back in the day?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Pyraminx-4.jpg

I think the more important point is that he is a nut or a moron or both.

I did, although I didn't know that's what they were called. I also had one of those things that was kind of like a Rubik's snake.


But back to Carson...he be crazy.

****ing awesome.

Carson is such a super-awesome candidate.

Why?

Why would he think this? i don't know much about 7th day adv., but is that part of their theology?

I would say that you have answered your own question in post #3. Being a neurosurgeon, he is certainly not a moron.

Claim
In a recently discovered clip of an address given at Andrews University in Michigan in 1998, retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson claims that the Egyptian pyramids were constructed by the biblical Joseph to store huge quantities of grain and were not, as is commonly believed, tombs for the pharaohs.

Fact?
Carson’s claims seem to be drawn in part from Egyptologist Dr Wyatt Thom’s 1984 book Egypt Egypt Egypt. According to Thom, the pyramids were built to house grain, and mummified bodies were placed inside as scarecrows to keep birds away. If you’re wondering how that makes sense given that the pyramids are enclosed structures, Thom claims this is because you’re “hamstrung by a very modern conception of birds”.

Verdict: fact

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...ds-store-grain

hamstrung by a very modern conception of birds?

Well he probably isn't wrong about that statement in and of itself given the general ignorance to any and almost everything by our American Idol society,

What are you talking about?

Neither was William Jennings Bryan. But he still took the stand in the Scopes Monkey Trial and testified that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.

So what did that make him? A nut, I guess? So Carson is a nut. Either way, utterly unqualified for the office to which he aspires.

That people are hamstrung specifically about their understanding of birds in the modern day compared to 1,000's of years ago. Whether that is actually applicable to the Carson statement is highly debatable.

Yeah it's a shame Ben Carson doesn't say more stuff like this that would increase our admiration and would make us want to look up to him....


“I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though. …” — Barack Obama

“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn’t been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn’t make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate’s sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you’d met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. …You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection.” — Barack Obama

“…I inhaled frequently. That was the point.” — Barack Obama

This is the thing that's going to be most interesting to me over the next year-5 years.

Even though every politician since forever has done it, there has been a wailing from the right during the President Obama years about never taking responsibility, and always pivoting back to "Bush did it..."

My theory is that we will see this just as much or more (since it's simply normal politics) where everything will pivot to Obama (or Hillary) rather than those who have been crying about it, actually taking their own advice.

Smoking pot is a lot different than believing that the pyramids are secret grain silos.

William Jennings Bryan? What the hell are you talking about? Did he have an opinion on the purpose of the Pyramids?

What a dumbass. Somebody should as him to name the 53 states.

Probably. But that's not the point. He publicly exposed himself as a nut, as Carson has done on a number of occasions now. But somehow Carson seems to be immune to the effects of publically exposing oneself as a nut.

Wait. Are you saying the birds EVOLVED? Doesn't that contradict Ben Carson's beliefs?

I can't help but think Ben Carson is on Trump's payroll. He is such a ****ing lunatic that he makes Trump look good by comparison.

Trump's probably going to tap him as his VP candidate.

This bears repeating. Insanity...

That would be the worst ticket in the history of civilization.

I would hypothesize that what you are talking about really has more to do with the complete dissatisfaction with the current administration/establishment than it does with Carson's nuttiness.

Read the entire article, pete. It was clearly written to mock Carson.

True. One is/was illegal

Palin as SoS?

That thing you quoted is not actually true.

Dr. Carson is like an idiot savant: brilliant neurosurgeon, but functionally reeruned outside of his field.

I just received a recorded call from Caron's campaign. Now I don't mind a short message. I'll listen. But it was so long and slow paced I had to hang up. Much too long for a tele-message.

maybe he was talking slow for the Democrats who might be listening...






it's a JOKE!!!! get over it :D

I know...sheesh ....wow dude .....really??? come on already

I don't know, man...those would make for some good scarecrows

hah, yeah right. I don't buy it.

His supporters seem to ignore his nuttiness. That was my point. And that's quite a way to express dissatisfaction.

I haven't been able to get a decent beer at this restaurant for the last seven years. So, instead of looking for a restaurant that has decent beer, I'm going across the street where they serve LSD.

Not the most rational move in the world.

Dude is your sarcasm meter still on Royals hangover?

Maybe birds didn't fly in those days. That's how Noah was able to gather them all to take on the ark.

Hey look...here is a grain pyramid....

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/732j__-r-2M/maxresdefault.jpg

Right up there with admitting to illegal parking

Yeah right up there

LMAO

LMAO

Speeding ticket then. Didn't Bush like the nose candy?

And booze

First, it is 57 states.
Second, you're going to compare an obvious goof with a thought-out and carefully articulated expression of belief? ok

Not really. He is still campaigning where the Evangelical RWNJ's live. He still has not proven that independents will just let his strange views slide.

Unless you are black.

How bad is it when Trump isn't even close to the biggest kook running for his party's nomination?

Archaeologists To Ben Carson: Ancient Egyptians Wrote Down Why The Pyramids Were Built

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We know what the pyramids were built for because the ancient Egyptians tell us what they were built for (see, for example, the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts). Denying ancient people the capability of building monumental structures is not new, though, and not confined to Egypt — plenty of people over the years have denied that Native Americans could have built the massive earthwork mounds across the U.S. and that the Mayas could have built their pyramids without help from aliens, Europeans, or a higher religious power.

It might be nice to think that Carson has learned since his talk, nearly two decades ago, more about the ancient Egyptian civilization. But no; Carson affirmed this belief in Joseph and his amazing technicolor grain silo to CBS News last night, doubling down on a profound, willful ignorance of science.

In the end, does it really matter what Carson thinks about the Egyptian pyramids? There will always be science deniers, there will always be people swayed by pseudoarchaeology, and there will always be people who believe what they want no matter the facts. It does matter, though, because Carson is vying for the job of representing the United States. So it matters that Carson casually rejects hundreds of years’ worth of research because in denying science, he throws the U.S. back into the past. It matters that he brazenly denies the Egyptian people their rightful history because this marginalizes an entire culture and makes the U.S. look like an ignorant bully.

Pffft...I guess archaeologists and the ancient Egyptians don't care that Dr. Carson has his own personal theory.

It must be respected or blaise will follow you around for weeks calling you a bigot.

Stupid archaeologists are probably the same crackpots who believe the Earth is billions of years old.

Those would be some atrociously designed and incredibly inefficient grain silos.

Then there's this shit, but it's not nearly as mind numbing as his pyramid theory..

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It is important to remember that amateurs built the Ark and it was the professionals that built the Titanic. <a href="https://twitter.com/my_ccu">@my_ccu</a> <a href="https://t.co/6Nqod4sicS">pic.twitter.com/6Nqod4sicS</a></p>&mdash; Dr. Ben Carson (@RealBenCarson) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealBenCarson/status/659777986854559744">October 29, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

What difference does that make?

The important thing here is to conform fact to one's religious beliefs. Dr. Carson is spot on.

Oh, hey, he also said yesterday that the Founding Fathers had no political experience. How 'bout that!

The illuminati are not amused...

LMAO

Doesn't this guy have kids? Normally when the senile parent starts wandering around the neighborhood in his underwear, the kids get together and take some action.

How long are they going to let him go on like this?

eh, all the archaeologists and egyptians were democrats...

I always suspicioned the pyramids were built for semen collection.

man, they must have had some big boars back then...

Yesterday he shared his theory that Arizona is west of California because it comes first in the alphabet.

ROFL

First appearance in human history of the lamestream media.

Damn Liberal Lamestream Hieroglyphics!

Actually, if any ancient civilization were to have done that, it would have been the Egyptians. Their mythology was nothing but sex, and all kinds of sex, and all the time. Moreso even than the Vikings, and that's saying something.

Vikings were sexy? I never knew that!

I thought that was Listo, but maybe I'm wrong...

Hahahahaha right you cant find Archaeologists who agree on any of the Hieroglyphics and what they mean. Has no one watched PBS and Discovery. Hell these guys nearly come to fisticuffs disagreeing on meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Hell for all we know some Pharaoh was making a monument in the sand of some hotties boobs.

They wrote it down makes it sound like Lewis and Clark mapping the west or the original surveys of the 7 ranges. Those guys are making as big an educated guess as Ben Carson. Get out of here with that shit.

http://img.izifunny.com/pics/2012/20...32-pics_28.jpg
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LMAO LMAO LMAO

Bologna.

baloney!

Maybe he got the hieroglyphics mixed up with his religion. I mean that statement if applied to the bible would make perfect sense.