Posted on 11/04/2015 8:18:58 PM PST by springwater13
NAPLES, Florida -- Ben Carson stood by his long-held belief about ancient pyramids in Egypt, that they were used to store grain, rather than to inter pharaohs.
Asked about this Wednesday, Carson told CBS News, "It's still my belief, yes."
The subject came up when Buzzfeed published a 1998 commencement speech delivered by Carson at Andrews University, a college founded by Seventh-day Adventists.
"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," Carson said. "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."
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This is just a small and relatively irrelevant factor in the way Carson sets off my "spidey senses"....
That’s an awful lot of stone to make those small grain-storage chambers within the pyramids. I’d like to know Carson’s reasoning.
“Ben Carson is a tin foiler.”
Which makes him like about 90% of FReepers. . .
(see any thread related to airline mishaps, disasters, any event where there is loss of life. . .)
;-)
LOL! This is funny but who cares really. I mean, I can’t see any “angle” or “agenda” that’s supported by this “theory”.
At least he didn’t say they were built by aliens. That might be indicative of a larger issue. But to store grain, instead of the accepted archeological theory?
Probably inspired by some nutty Ellen G White “prophecy”.
Who cares.
No, that doesn’t work. Carson really IS a brain surgeon. Not some politician tourist.
That’s just RETARDED.
This whole topic goes to a theory I’ve mentioned (and got flamed for ) many times here on FR.
When did it occur that the US President MUST be the supreme learned, don’t of all knowledge? North Korea much?
This all-knowing, seek the wisdom/comment of our Dear Leader mentality gets police officers vilified; clock boys invited to the White House; and a FLOTUS who suddenly is a childhood nutrition expert ruining school lunches.
What the Country needs is a leader, who leads by surrounding themselves with people he (using the qualities that the electorate recognized that got him elected) he trusts as learned on the topic/crisis at hand.
This is such a non-starter. Expertise in Egyptology has NOTHING to do with being President of the United States in 2017. Carson IS however versed, and morally/religiously strong enough to call out both ISIS (note he NEVER refers to them as ISIL to implicate Israel as our current “all knowing” President insists) and the Islam invasion of the West.
The former lack of pyramid building knowledge is acceptable—the calling out of our enemies is NEEDED!
So, suppose we had a Presidential candidate whom believed in a flat Earth? Would that matter?
Apparently not.
Suppose we had a President who believed that cow farts, plastic grocery bags, SUVs, candles in Jack 0’Lanterns and fossil fuels were DESTROYING the Erf, and that the solution was more taxes! And suppose he gave massive amounts of tax dollars to his buddies to build windmills and solar panels and DESTROYED the American coal industry, has taken aim at nuclear and fossil fuels, and...
Oh wait. THATS happening! And we are paying MORE for our electricity and other than the pyramids on the back of the dollar bills we no longer have, correct or incorrect Egyptology has no bearing...
About how long would it have taken to build the step pyramid? Is this known? Joseph had seven years, starting immediately [i.e.: as soon as he was put on the job] to store the grain. Where did he keep it while the pyramid was under construction?
A pyramid structure is not even remotely ideal for use as a granary. The timing is wrong (regardless of your preferred chronology, I'm not aware of anyone who believes Joseph was connected to the pyramids). There's no sign of grain storage besides maybe a few pots (ostensibly a food stash for the dead mummy's travels in the afterlife).
Carson's not stupid, so I have to wonder what his thinking is here and where he got his ideas. I suppose everyone has pet ideas they may nurture without much investigation/thought, but to present such in a public speech is absurd, and in the context of a presidential campaign...?
Neither is the cr@p the liberal media digs up to destroy GOP candidates. It's disgusting when supposed conservatives act as their lackeys.
I doubt Carson is smarter than Cruz or, for that matter, Trump.
The concern trolls are coming out of the woodwork.
Yes, it is odd at best. I just read an article on the step pyramid, and found no reference to grain silos. I did discover that its estimated construction time is between ten and fifteen years. That rules it out as a grain storage facility in Joseph’s time—as did all the other details.
I can’t imagine what Carson was thinking of, to say something like this. I guess he’s not expecting it to get much coverage—and it likely won’t.
Sorry, but Carson is unbelievably wrong on this one, and if he’s unable to understand the facts and change his position, I don’t want him as President. This is mind-bogglngly stupid.
The step pyramid itself would not have contained the silos—they would have merely been in the same complex.
Is there an Egyptology site that details the silos?
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