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Old 11-05-2015, 12:28 PM   Topic Starter
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Ben Carson: Egyptian pyramids were used to store grain, not Pharaohs' tombs


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
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Old 11-05-2015, 12:33 PM   #2
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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.”
If Trump is going to start directly cracking on people's whacky religious beliefs, I really may have to consider supporting him.
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Old 11-05-2015, 12:34 PM   #3
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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.
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Old 11-05-2015, 12:36 PM   #4
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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.
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Old 11-05-2015, 12:35 PM   #5
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I wonder if he is a young earther. Maybe he attributes the Grand Canyon to the Great Flood.
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Old 11-05-2015, 12:37 PM   #6
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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?
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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?
I think the more important point is that he is a nut or a moron or both.
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Old 11-05-2015, 12:56 PM   #8
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I think the more important point is that he is a nut or a moron or both.
I would say that you have answered your own question in post #3. Being a neurosurgeon, he is certainly not a moron.
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I would say that you have answered your own question in post #3. Being a neurosurgeon, he is certainly not a moron.
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.
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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.
William Jennings Bryan? What the hell are you talking about? Did he have an opinion on the purpose of the Pyramids?
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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?
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.
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****ing awesome.

Carson is such a super-awesome candidate.
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Why would he think this? i don't know much about 7th day adv., but is that part of their theology?
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