I’ll volunteer to be on the women-only island to record the results. And to hike the Appalachian Trail.
[QUOTE=Ben Carson]
“And when you look at the way that the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they’d have to be that way for various reasons,” he said. “And various of scientists have said, ‘well, you know there were alien beings that came down and they have special knowledge and that’s how.’ You know, it doesn’t require an alien being when God is with you.”
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I have to admit that I agree with him that it didn’t require aliens, but I don’t think there are many scientists who think it did.
Hasn’t he wondered about the wisdom of placing dead bodies where you store your food?
Marco Rubio said he wants to have a beer with Malala, who is underage, a Muslim, and a Socialist.
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/marco-rubio-said-he-wants-have-beer-malala-underage-muslim
I just noticed this in the news today and had to come here to post it too, of course. The article I saw quotes the same incoherent remark that davidm quotes above. Here’s another even more incoherent part:
(Anybody have any idea what he’s trying to say there?)
Here’s the article I saw: Egypt pyramids for grain not pharoahs[sic]: presidential hopeful Carson. Note, by the way: This is from a talk Carson gave before some group associated with the Seventh Day Adventists, about 17 years ago. I guess somebody just noticed it yesterday.
Oh, by the way: Joseph didn’t actually build the pyramids to hold dead kings either. Nobody thinks he did that.
He’s saying that it would have to be awfully big and wouldn’t disappear over the course of time to store that much grain.
Okay. It makes no sense. He was sort of speaking English I think, but I suppose it’s just over the heads of us non brain surgeons.
Is that the one with the dream about seven fat cows, and seven skinny ones, and the skinny ones turn into carnivorous lacto-raptors and eat the fat ones? Canibulls.
For a neurosurgeon, his thought processes sure seem a little Abby Normal.
He’s doubled down:
Matching events in the Pentateuch to the chronology of historic Egypt is interesting and controversial. (I think the Exodus was inspired by events near the reign of Akhenaten.) But AFAICT, there are no constructions which put Joseph in the time of the Old Kingdom. Has Carson published his fascinating construction?
Disclaimer: the preceding sentence was a joke. Sifting Carson’s comments for intelligible content would be like giving a clown’s farts equal billing in a political debate. (Oh, America is doing that as we speak? Wow!)
Keeps away the organic polar bears.
Must have gotten his history from Civilization III. Building the Pyramids gave you a free Granary in every city in that game, for some reason.
I am sure others on the SD have visited Egypt as I have, and have visited the Pyramids, as I have. And some have probably been able to go inside the Great Pyramid or the smallest of the three (which I did).
All I can say, if they designed them for grain storage, then the contractor needed to be fired…with a catapult…over the Nile.
I was willing to give Carson the benefit of the doubt given that the comments were in 1998, but I see he has ‘doubled down’ on that.
To borrow from The Bridge on the River Kwai: “Madness…Madness.”
I can’t access your link for some reason, but this isn’t an original theory of Carson’s – it’s an old theory going back to the time of the Crusades, when Europeans were trying to square the Bible with their own observations. Carson must’ve read something by someone who resurrected the notion.
“Slowing down an investigation” is not the same as “providing an exemption.” The article (certainly the headline) misrepresents those assertions.
It’s a huge stretch. RFRAs do not apply where the state has a compelling interest in the subject of the challenged legislation. If the state requires parents to accept lifesaving medical care, the RFRA will not apply.
I’m not sure why this qualifies. The thrust of the question is clearly “who would you like to have a conversation with,” rather than actually having a beer. In any event, Malala is an anti-Muslim-fundamentalist activist, and can legally drink basically everywhere in the world except here. As for socialism, I am fairly certain it is not her views on economic systems that Rubio respects.
If anything, we ought to be cheering this as a good Republican idea of the day.
Look, I already TOLD you, the only reason the corpse is in the fridge is because of the warm spell!
The weather’ll cool down again tomorrow, and I’ll put it back out on the porch.
Why? He was 47 years old then, and it had long been known that all but a tiny fraction of the pyramids’ interiors were solid rock. Not to mention that the pyramids were built at least a thousand years before the earliest possible date for Joseph. Not to mention that they took decades to build, while Joseph needed the storage right away, to provide grain for the famine that would begin seven years from the date of Pharaoh’s dream.
This is funny, but it’s also very disturbing. If someone that old and that educated and that intelligent is so deluded by his religion that he seriously proposes something so ridiculous that it goes even beyond what is taught by his [del]wacko cult[/del] denomination, then what kind of crazy thoughts might he have about ushering in the End Times by fighting Russia in the Middle East (a common theme in evangelical circles)?
If this guys is a brain surgeon, maybe we are wrong on how hard rocket science is as well.
Well, it would be pretty apocalyptic, in a sense.
No fair! A LOT of us brainy intellectuals are Crowleyites.
Thelema is much less dopey than evangelical Christianity. Cocaine use and crazy monkey sex are part of the ritual, for example.