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merrily

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1. I don't even know which Bible Carson read.
Wed Nov 11, 2015, 01:12 PM
Nov 2015

This is all the Biblical story of Joseph says about where grain was stored:

48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.


Genesis, Chapter 41, King James Version

Note please: the bible the grain was stored in cities, then in every city. I have no clue what constituted a city back then. However, all the pyramids I know about in Egypt are in the desert, both the pyramids of Giza (which are the ones I suspect Carson means) and other, less famous pyramids.

Store grain in the driest areas against a seven-year famine would have been sensible, but that is not what the Bible says. So, not even religion excuses Carson's nonsense.

So hard to reconcile this fabrication with his being a man of science.

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