Ben Carson insists a biblical figure built the pyramids of Egypt to store grain
Ben Carson is not buying the archaeological consensus around Egypt's pyramids. The retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate first floated his unusual theory back in 1998 at a commencement address at Andrews University and, on Wednesday night, he confirmed that he's sticking by it. Here's what he said 17 years ago:
While the theory that pyramids were used as grain silos was floated in the sixth century, The Atlantic reports that it's long been debunked because, well, pyramids "don't actually have tiny openings" and "they aren't hollow." Still, when CBS News asked Carson about the idea Wednesday night, he responded: "It's still my belief, yes."
As CBS News points out, Carson's theory likely stems from the seven years of plenty written about in Genesis in which "'Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.'"
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