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

[Dave Lane]

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

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by go bowe

and that's the way it should be...

even stupid people have the right to vote, their is no intelligence test for voting...

I see what you did their.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I hope that someday we develop the technology and fortitude to get over that 100 foot wall. I'm curious what's on the bottom half of the earth.

Titties. Lots and lots of titties. It's beautiful.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

The South Pole does not exist. Wake up sheeple!

http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2...not-exist.html
In the Flat-Earth model of the cosmos, the North Pole is the immovable center of the world and the entire universe. Polaris, the North Star, sits straight over the North Pole at the highest point in the heavens, and like a slowly rotating planetarium dome all the celestial bodies revolve around Polaris and over the Earth once per day. The Sun circles over and around the circumference of Earth every 24 hours, steadily traveling each day from the equator during the March vernal equinox, up to the Tropic of Cancer at the June summer solstice, back down to the equator for the September autumnal equinox, and all the way down to the Tropic of Capricorn on the December winter solstice.

In the Flat-Earth model, the South Pole does not exist at all and Antarctica is instead a gigantic ice-wall extending the circumference of Earth holding in the oceans like a giant bowl, or a “world cup.” As strange as this concept may sound at first, it is a fact that if you set a bearing due South from anywhere on Earth, inevitably at or before 78 degrees Southern latitude, you will find yourself face-to-face with an enormous ice-wall towering 100-200 feet in the air extending to the East and West the entire circumference of the world!

I like how he uses the equinoxes to support his flat earth theory... real Norman Einstein there....

[go bo]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

I see what you did their.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by GloucesterChief

Also, the pyramid is a very stable and easy to build structure which you can build tall with very little advanced engineering needed. The Coliseum and Roman aqueducts are much more complicated as they rely on arches to carry the load rather than the rather dense blocks that pyramids use.

Both the Coliseum and the aqueducts were used for grain storage. That's a fact.

[go bo]

during the offseason, arrowhead is filled with grain...

[KC native]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Carson believes that Rhode Island is where America manufactures all of its roads.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by listopencil

Titties. Lots and lots of titties. It's beautiful.

And I imagine they would be quite perky since everyone is upside down.

[srvy]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Funny you should ask. The moon is also flat according to this brilliant scientific mind srvy considers a source.

So this guy is a nut I didn't read about what he believes I searched some articles and read that one and posted it. Still the theories he pulled together from different sources is interesting.

Do you think the earth is like the globe you had in science class Saul?

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by srvy

So this guy is a nut I didn't read about what he believes I searched some articles and read that one and posted it. Still the theories he pulled together from different sources is interesting.

Do you think the earth is like the globe you had in science class Saul?

What kind of globe is it?

[BucEyedPea]

Who cares what Ben thinks about pyramids being grain silos. He's religious and believes in the Bible. All religions have their mythologies. The left has their own—the mythology that the state is our savior and works economic miracles.

[srvy]

Originally Posted by patteeu

What kind of globe is it?

Its not a globe or sphere or ellipsoid. A Geiod and here is an image of of the actual mapped surface of the earth.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by srvy

So this guy is a nut I didn't read about what he believes I searched some articles and read that one and posted it. Still the theories he pulled together from different sources is interesting.

Do you think the earth is like the globe you had in science class Saul?

If I want to discuss science, I'll do it with my wife who is a science teacher. I'm not going to have a conversation with someone who doesn't know what the Rosetta Stone is, thinks that the pyramids may have been used for grain storage, and cites flat earth blogs as a source.

[srvy]

Oh surprise look the are some surfaces that appear to be flat. The eath is more like a misshaped rock.

[Dave Lane]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Carson believes that Rhode Island is where America manufactures all of its roads.

And its an island.