[BushCountry]

Did Carson say all pyramids? This post from Dec 2014 suggests that at least the very first step pyramid was used exactly for grain storage.

“The Step Pyramid complex at Saqqara Egypt contains grain silos and administrative buildings. Not only was it the first pyramid, it contained the first silos and the first building with columns. It was designed by Imhotep who may have been Joseph of the Bible.”

https://josephandisraelinegypt.wordpress.com/tag/first-pyramid/

[silent_jonny]

The subject came up when Buzzfeed published a 1998 commencement speech delivered by Carson

Isn't this great, having all these candidates' histories we can dig into--this one going back 17 years.

But Obama magically appears in 2004 with no history whatsoever. Heck "Obama" isn't even his real name. And he's elected president, almost without question.

[Hatteras]

Seriesly?

[trebb]

And they learned how to store grain this way by advanced alien visitors who also insisted on specific symmetries and small space/structure volume to store the grain. Some of the pharaohs bodies got interred in grain and were accidentally put in the silos with the grain being stored.

This is just a small and relatively irrelevant factor in the way Carson sets off my "spidey senses"....

[cymbeline]

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.

[FourtySeven]

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.

[dinodino]

That’s just RETARDED.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Huh?

[TangledUpInBlue]

Grain alcohol maybe..........

[Mr Rogers]

I guess it would make an interesting debate question:

“Were the pyramids made by Joseph to store grain?”

If Carson becomes the nominee, I suspect he WILL get that question in a presidential debate. Then conservatives will be screwed.

[ek_hornbeck]

...which must be why there are mummies of Pharaohs within, but no grain.

Carson is certainly on a roll. First not knowing the difference between Fed chair and Secretary of the Treasury and now this. Like his fellow token minority predecessor Herman Cain, this guy is without the first clue on most things and not ready for prime time.

[mbarker12474]

Was Carson referring to the famous pyramids at Giza and elsewhere, which of course are used as tombs, or was he referring to the engineering of pyramid-shaped buildings in general? So, for example:

    

[ViLaLuz]

So? It’s not as crazy as Bruce Jenner believing he’s a woman, abortionist believing preborn babies aren’t human, Benghazi was caused by an awful video, 0bama is American, etc. Etc. Etc.

[Fred Nerks]

http://media.smh.com.au/video-news/video-world-news/ben-carson-still-believes-pyramids-were-grain-stores-6989069.html

Video

[steve86]

Said today the whole grain storage fiasco will have been worth it if he ends up being buried (royally) in one (pyramid).

[r_barton]

Obviously the pyramids were built to store dollar bills. Look on the back of a One. ;-)