# was Ancient Kemet science superior to modern science **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 24, 2015, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034 "2015-07-24T07:29:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@thanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thanatic)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/1 "2015-07-24T07:29:07Z")
are ancient kemetic systems superior to modern science in quantum physics, physics in general and all types of science, chemistry, biology etc.? that many of the information we find out today in modern science was already known by Ancient Kemet…and that there are thousands upon thousands of secrets that modern science does not know that Ancient Kemet knew of do you buy this premise? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/2 "2015-07-24T07:43:40Z")
> [@thanatic](#): > > are ancient kemetic systems superior to modern science in quantum physics, physics in general and all types of science, chemistry, biology etc.? Of course not. First off, they obviously did not have antibiotics, certain vaccines, and a number of other things that were discovered rather late in the game. No doubt, they were not equipped with some nifty devices like an electron microscope, just to name one. > [@](#): > > that many of the information we find out today in modern science was already known by Ancient Kemet Care to list them? > [@](#): > > …and that there are thousands upon thousands of secrets that modern science does not know that Ancient Kemet knew of How do you know it was known in ancient Egypt if nobody today knows about it? > [@](#): > > do you buy this premise? Nope. The premise is pure bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/3 "2015-07-24T07:44:25Z")
> [@thanatic](#): > > are ancient kemetic systems superior to modern science in quantum physics, physics in general and all types of science, chemistry, biology etc.? > > that many of the information we find out today in modern science was already known by Ancient Kemet…and that there are thousands upon thousands of secrets that modern science does not know that Ancient Kemet knew of > > do you buy this premise? It sounds like bollocks to me, but could you provide an example? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/4 "2015-07-24T07:45:34Z")
Looks like I “Ninjaed” you, **Mangetout**. ---
**Author:** ![thanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@thanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thanatic)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/5 "2015-07-24T08:12:40Z")
from what i understand kemet science is closely connected with the spiritual world and spirituality, metaphysics etc. many “pro-black” proponents view modern mainstream science as being “white man’s science” and see “empirical” science as being strictly European ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/6 "2015-07-24T08:23:58Z")
If they reject empirical evidence, what’s the basis of their system of science? Science isn’t about belief; it’s about what is. You still fall down regardless of whether or not you believe in gravity. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/7 "2015-07-24T08:47:32Z")
> [@thanatic](#): > > from what i understand kemet science is closely connected with the spiritual world and spirituality, metaphysics etc. > > many “pro-black” proponents view modern mainstream science as being “white man’s science” and see “empirical” science as being strictly European Yeah, well, let’s see them build a smartphone using non-empirical science. I mean, seriously - that’s racist as all fuck. Science is for everyone, not just white people. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/8 "2015-07-24T08:48:58Z")
If the scientific world isn’t meeting the needs of a particular community unfairly, that’s the fault of the practitioners, not the method. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/9 "2015-07-24T09:52:18Z")
> [@thanatic](#): > > from what i understand kemet science is closely connected with the spiritual world and spirituality, metaphysics etc. > > many “pro-black” proponents view modern mainstream science as being “white man’s science” and see “empirical” science as being strictly European So your answer to the questions put to you by both **Mangetout** and me is a no to each question. How’s this theory of mine suit you? You know full well “Kemet ‘science’” is a total crock and that’s why you put it in IMHO instead of GD where you could debate its particulars or GQ where assertions of fact should be supported by a fact. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/10 "2015-07-24T09:54:44Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I mean, seriously - that’s racist as all fuck. Science is for everyone, not just white people. Way back when the White people in Europe were pissing around with their version of pseudo-science and pseudo-medicine, weren’t there a bunch of Muslims not that far away involved in actual science and weren’t a number of those Muslims, shall we say, of a more robust hue than said Whites in Europe? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/11 "2015-07-24T10:06:14Z")
> [@thanatic](#): > > from what i understand kemet science is closely connected with the spiritual world and spirituality, metaphysics etc. > > many “pro-black” proponents view modern mainstream science as being “white man’s science” and see “empirical” science as being strictly European Please just give a specific example of something that it explains in a superior way to quantum physics, physics, chemistry, biology etc. One specific example can’t be that hard - unless it is, after all, a load of bollocks. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/12 "2015-07-24T10:38:03Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Way back when the White people in Europe were pissing around with their version of pseudo-science and pseudo-medicine, weren’t there a bunch of Muslims not that far away involved in actual science and weren’t a number of those Muslims, shall we say, of a more robust hue than said Whites in Europe? There were Muslims studying mathematics, astronomy, and other topics in what you might consider a more modern fashion. This is not to say that their work was not influenced by their own superstitions. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/13 "2015-07-24T11:28:12Z")
> [@thanatic](#): > > from what i understand kemet science is closely connected with the spiritual world and spirituality, metaphysics etc. I think I see what you mean that the Ancient Egyptians discovered: - psychics - homeopathy - Pyramid Schemes Also we have no idea how they built the Pyramids! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/14 "2015-07-24T12:42:59Z")
Stinky-footed bumpkins, I heard. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/15 "2015-07-24T12:43:03Z")
From the ground up, is how I’d do it. I’m no Kemetian though. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/16 "2015-07-24T12:48:52Z")
Horseshit. Pure and simple. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/17 "2015-07-24T13:05:00Z")
Well they had the great seltzer elevator to build the pyramid. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/18 "2015-07-24T13:48:48Z")
There was not ever any Human culture which had science in advance of what we have today. Any claims to the contrary are pure fantasy. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/19 "2015-07-24T14:19:57Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I mean, seriously - that’s racist as all fuck. Science is for everyone, not just white people. Worse than merely being racist, it’s ignorant and dumb. (not that all 3 don’t usually cluster together). Science, by definition is independent of race, creed, religion, etc… If it does integrate any of that other stuff, it’s a belief system of some kind, not actual science. And that’s the problem- how many people will suffer for one reason or another because of someone’s notion about “white man’s science” vs. “black man’s science”, when the real world just does its thing without regard for the color of one’s skin? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034/20 "2015-07-24T15:16:07Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > There was not ever any Human culture which had science in advance of what we have today. How about in Atlantis, smart guy? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-ancient-kemet-science-superior-to-modern-science/726034.md?page=2)