Posted on 11/05/2015 9:37:57 AM PST by jimbo123
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson is not backing down from a belief that drew widespread attention on Wednesday - that the Egyptian pyramids were built as grain silos, not elaborate tombs.
In a 1998 commencement speech at Andrews University unearthed by BuzzFeed, Carson pointed to hermetically sealed chambers as a sign the pyramids were used by Egyptians to store grain and food.
"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," Carson said in the speech, referring to the biblical figure.
He added: "Now, all the archaeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs' graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big - when 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 assumes it was originally built as a solid structure rather than as an empty structure which was re-purposed. I’m not trying to support his statement, but it is not exactly extra terrestrial level thinking either. I have friends in Vermont who are living in a three level home that used to be a church. Things can be changed after they are initially built. People can scoff, but I am not sure that because we find a structure purposed one way, it was built for that exact purpose, especially one that was built so long ago. And this is exactly the bait we always rise to. It’s a shoulder shrug at best.
Its the kind of question the left uses.<<
Yup!...but its that kind of answer is why they continue to ask them..
Given the chance to correct a silly 1998 statement....He doubled down on DUMB!
Google the investigative judgement.
I read your post as ‘this is ‘graining’ traction.
That is a lot of expensive piss.
Next he will mention the danger of Guam tipping over, so he heard...
Rather sizable difference between a temple and a pyramid.
This was the first of the pyramids.
That is a stretch. Why use a pyramid shape of colossal proportions instead of a series of smaller cylindrical silos that could be easily built around the kingdom?
I thought Joseph was supposed to be a smart guy.
The pyramid was, not the temple. No room in the Steps for storage.
Except Ben didn’t say it was the ‘steps temple’. His reference was to the Great Pyramids.
Shhh... they are trying to defend him.
LOL
This is exactly the sort of crap Ted Cruz went off on the moderators about during the last debate. “Conservatives” using crap like this to attack other republicans just encourages the media to keep doing it. There are plenty of other reasons to be concerned about Carson’s policy chops without wasting time on this crap.
Carson’s only mistake in this case was in bothering to answer at all.
The only reason they do it is because they know that a fair number of conservative voters will take the bait. Meanwhile the most damning question they’ll ever ask Hillary is how does she endure the unfair and sexist attacks from republicans.
The Great Pyramids were built 4500 years ago so your defense doesn’t fly.
You are exactly correct in that his problem is answering an idiotic question with an equally idiotic answer.
Yeah it is pretty damn funny.
Gen. 41:48 He stored it in the cities.
…47During the seven years of plenty the land brought forth abundantly. 48So he gathered all the food of these seven years which occurred in the land of Egypt and placed the food in the cities; he placed in every city the food from its own surrounding fields. 49Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.
And you media wannabes who wallow in them like pigs (as long as they aren’t asked of your candidate)
So he was a smart guy...
I knew that passage BTW. :)
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