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Ben Carson: Egyptian pyramids were grain stores, not pharaohs'
tombs


Dr. Ben Carson stands by remarks made in 1998, but criticised
‘scientists’ who he said claimed pyramids were built by ‘alien
beings’

Egypt’s pyramids were built by the biblical Joseph to store
grain and were not, as archaeologists believe, tombs for
pharaohs, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson has said.

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The retired neurosurgeon, who is seeking his party’s nomination
for the White House, made these remarks in a 1998 address at
Andrews University, a Michigan school associated with the
Seventh-day Adventist Church, to which he belongs, in a video
posted on Buzzfeed on Wednesday.

The church is a conservative evangelical (American) Christian
one.

In this 1998 speech, Ben Carson says the pyramids in Egypt
were built to store grain
“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.

“Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the
pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, it would have to be something
awfully big if 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.”

Asked on Wednesday if he still held these views, Carson told
CBS News: “It’s still my belief, yes.”


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Speaking to MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, rival Republican
Trump said: “He’s informed me about the pyramids. I think I’ll
have to put that in my repertoire about Ben. That was a strange
deal.”

In his 1998 address, Carson said: “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.

“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’.”


In the old testament book of Genesis, Joseph, one of the 12
sons of Jacob, was said to have “stored up grain in great
abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring
it, for it was beyond measure”.

After seven years of plenty, the story in Genesis says, Egypt
suffered seven years of famine, during which Joseph was able to
feed the people with the grain he had stored.

Carson has spoken often about his faith, saying recently of his
critics: “They say, ‘Carson, you know, how can you be a
surgeon, a neurosurgeon, and believe that God created the
Earth, and not believe in evolution, which is the basis of all
knowledge and all science?’ …

“But I do believe God created us, and I did just fine … And in
fact, the more you know about God, and the deeper your
relationship with God, I think the more intricate becomes your
knowledge of the way things work, including the human body.”

Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.