[PIF]

“The alignment of the pyramids is nothing a reasonably clever boy scout couldn’t manage”

So a Boy Scout, in the middle of a desert, with nothing more than sticks, strings and so on could not only align a huge structure to the then north pole within one degree of accuracy, but also choose the site so than it actually was smack dab in the middle of the land mass of the entire Earth?

Just asking...

[muir_redwoods]

Every spot on earth is smack dab in the middle depending upon how you measure it. It's been awhile since I was a boy scout but any clear night I can find the north star.

Just how tough would it be to pile a bunch of rocks on a predetermined plot? The use of a standard unit of measure for both raw length and also for the diameter of a measuring wheel inculcates pi into the structure all over the place even if they had no understanding of the ratio. The belt of Orion is an impressive sight in the desert night sky without any competing lights so the use of that alignment for the layout of the pyramids is not that complex.

The short version of the refutation is this.Had aliens assisted in the construction of the pyramids, it wouldn't have been so crude and pointless. It would have at least had indoor plumbing, A/C and lights I don't need a 100 million tons rock to point me north and show me pi.

[Quix]

IIRC, some of such structure complexes around the world indicate knowledge of a star in the Orien constellation which was not known or visible until the modern era.