Posted on 11/05/2015 12:55:00 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
".... I certainly don't agree with Carson on this but neither do I think it is terribly material to anything. If you are trying to make a case that Carson is an idiot or against science, I think it takes more than a religious conviction to discredit an internationally prominent neurosurgeon with a string of articles published in scholarly medical journals. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton believes in man-induced global warming. Many of the same people criticizing Carson actually believe that gender has nothing to do with chromosomes or endocrinology or physiology. When it comes to GMOs, especially seeds that minimize the need for herbicides and insecticides, the entire left make the Luddites look positively progressive. If you scratch a leftist you find someone screaming "vaccines cause autism." And let’s not even get started on the bizarre belief that heterosexual marriage and the pathetic fraud that is homosexual marriage are even comparable much less equal....."
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Nice intelligent guy, but I don't want him facing down Putin or Iran.
Really? One poster has convinced you that Carson is pretty level headed?
Is that how you make all of your decisions?
Sounds like you’re the kind of guy we need cleaning House! It is long overdue.
The people who built the pyramids wrote down why they built them
Not a very good, nor well-written, nor well-researched article.
Carson’s thoughts on the pyramids are not important to me, and the left won’t get much traction to make him look silly over it.
However, the author fails to be knowledgeable of Left Wingers who SCREAM that everyone should be vaccinated for everything and that GMO’s are the best thing since...
He also has no idea that Right Wingers exist who are against or are extremely cautious of over-vaccinating kids, do not believe enough research or caution has been used in the vaccines, and who demand that Monsanto be outlawed in the US. Yes, I am one of them, apologetically.
To paint our two sides with that broad of a brush on these 2 issues is ignorant. I know others feel the same as I do and it does not make us any less of a Right Wing Wacko.
He lacks basic, common sense. He is not fit to be President, and I like Carson, but his running is a complete joke. Let him be Surgeon General, but keep him the hell away from anything requiring basic analysis of what is readily apparent.
No; it took your post to confirm it.
You bring certitude to a subject where certitude does not exist. Now, if you would care to spell out word for word what is written in all those hieroglyphics, feel free. But don’t adopt the audacity to assert everyone knows how and why the great pyramids were built, because even experts in hieroglyphics disagree on their meaning. By the way, I doubt they were built by Joseph for grain storage, but find it distasteful to mock someone who holds to that theory.
Well put! I 100% agree.
Increasingly specialized education has led to most people walking around with a huge empty space in their brain where general knowledge and general intellect used to lie.
You can’t know everything about everything, but intellect should prevent you from spouting off on things you know nothing about or know you don’t understand. To have a strong, uninformed opinion on any subject is crackbrained.
The point that the writer is so correctly making is that the Left is never assailed for their unscientific policies and positions.
But he seems like a “nice, smart man.”
The road to the Whitehouse is laced with land mines. Having to defend statements on evolution and the purpose of the pyramids simply make him look foolish.
At this stage of the game we have to deal with someone who cannot navigate these waters? Wait until the tough questions start.
Just curious. What makes you think that the Pyramids were not spectacular three thousand years ago? The certainly did not look like they do now. The Sistine chapel is, what, 450-500 years old? Tops?
They are not even comparable.
Not much room for grain storage inside.
Also, they took 30 years to build. Can you imagine spending 30 years on a food storage unit?
Also, can you imagine a non-Pharaoh commanding the resources necessary to build them?
The bible story has Joseph winning his way into the Pharoah’s confidence, and that twice (the first time he got detoured into the dungeon by a scheming, lying woman but a godly man could not be kept down).
To the point that if Joseph had WANTED a pyramid for the purpose he would have been granted authority to get it built. The massive stone edifice would have guarded the grain against temperature variations, for one thing.
However it is dubious, very dubious, based on the bible account. These storehouses were built in cities. Doubtless Joseph saw no point in wasting efforts for facilities that weren’t intended for show, and we don’t find any city located pyramids today. Maybe archaeologists may turn up some of these storehouses in the future, identifying positively what they were.
Maybe someone else has heard more, but I read a theory that wood fittings were tied to the outside of pyramid blocks to form an item that could be rolled while pulled by ropes, rather than slid. Could there, in fact, have been some form of the block and tackle in play?
The time line would be too long for the time line of the “7 year warning” of Joseph’s dream, unless there were expedients we know nothing about today.
Hollowing out an existing pyramid might have been easier, a repurposing, and maybe Joseph might have suggested this if it made sense... but again, volume calculations.
And, I assume we have now gotten X-ray imagery maps of all extant pyramids and found none that were seriously hollowed out.
In a “sanctified imagination” in connection with standard Christology, an edifice that had been intended for a burial being repurposed to serve the means of life and survival wouldn’t be utterly absurd from a religious point of view. But if it were that important, one might think it would have shown up in the bible. It just seems very dubious. Carson had to learn enough science to be a doctor. You don’t estimate the blood volume of a man at more than what his whole body displaces.
I think hollowing out a pyramid would weaken and collapse it. They actually weren’t that great in terms of structural engineering... just well-placed piles of stone. I’m not denigrating the skills of the day, they were good for what they were. But they weren’t up to the task of building a large hollow structure built of stone. All those extremely heavy stones had to be resting on other extremely heavy stones. Too much hollowing and the walls definitely come tumbling down.
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