Politics Ben Carson: pyramids were grain storages for Joseph

What are you babbling about?

No loot ever found in pyramids. You argued against that using the example of Tut's tomb, which isn't a pyramid.

Then you find quibble with me because I say Carson may have a point if he was talking about the pyramid in the video.

However, if he thinks all the pyramids were grain silos, he's whacko. And the alien thing is just plain strange.

 

No. The pyramids were looted by grave robbers.

Tut's tomb was well hidden and grave robbers never found it before it was discovered by a scientist.

Carson says Joseph built the (first) pyramid to store grain. It looks like it was built, at least in part, to store grain. If anything, it appears that grain storage was a prominent feature. It could well be that burial sites were not the initial purpose of the very first pyramid or two. It isn't unreasonable that the first was built as a temple and to store grain and was converted to a tomb.

 

So, Denny, your argument about Carson seems to be that he's really really bad at the English language. He says "no involvement" when he means "I only endorsed their product for money, I didn't control their decisions" and he means "the first pyramid" when he says "pyramids".

Could be, but he seems fairly articulate. It might be a simpler explanation to conclude that he actually means what he says, and thus he's both crazy and a liar. But you could be right, I'm not ruling it out.

barfo

 

No, my argument is he is basing his belief about Joseph and the pyramids on something that archaeology verifies. But he was very broad in suggesting maybe all the pyramids were created as grain stores, which is obviously not true. However, he did say the pyramids built by Joseph, so he may actually be on solid ground here.

The pyramids were built over many generations. Joseph could not have been alive for all those generations. So which of the pyramids are the ones that Joseph built? - the answer is not all of them, but certainly the one that did have grain stores.

 

Watch the video Mags posted.

If the archaeology doesn't agree with the story, please feel free to provide the detail.

And see my previous post. This bit:

“My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain,” Carson – who last week overtook Republican rival Donald Trump for the first time in a national poll – told graduates in his address.

He was actually specific about which pyramids - the one(s) Joseph built.

 

CBS News report on the same thing.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ben-carsons-unusual-theory-about-pyramids/

What Carson has in mind here is the seven years of plenty in Egypt, referred to in Genesis, when "Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure." In the Bible, Joseph fed Egypt and the rest of the world during the seven years of drought that followed.

 

Surgery (and being an MD in general) has not that much to do with brainpower. In Carson's case, it is said that what made him an outstanding surgeon was exceptional hand-eye coordination.

That said, I don't think he's stupid. He might well be autistic, though.

Ignorant, definitely.

barfo

 

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barfo

 

Yeah, I agree about that. The source of his belief is grounded in religion, of course. But it is actually backed by archaeology.