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Great Pyramid Theories	peddler2	08/18/07
If you base your religious beliefs on un-provable assumptions from science the word fact and belief get confused. Fact becomes what you believe and no evidence to the contrary will be considered. Sadly this trait is shared by atheist and pseudo-atheist New Agers over the age of the earth. The evidence that can be interpreted as great ages is limited to starlight and time, radiometric dating and ice cores. The only one that cannot be easily dismissed is starlight but either way you interpret that evidence you share the problem so to choose one theory over another when both have the exact same problem is illogical. The ice cores have been completely refuted by counting the rings that “prove” WW2 airplanes which landed in Greenland have been there for 250k years. Radiometric dating has been disproved by helium diffusion and the fact that all the methods but 2 give greatly conflicting answers etc. So you have I fairly good argument and two very weak arguments for great ages which can also be interpreted as young ages.. On the other hand there are 24 methods of dating that cannot be interpreted as long ages at all. One of them as Math said is history . Human history only foes back as far as the Bible says it does.There is no living thing that can be demonstrated to be older then the Great Flood, population, salt in the oceans, lunar regression, short ,period comets, long period comets, the magnetic cores of Earth as well as Venus ,Mercury ,Saturn Venus and Neptune, the spin of the earth ,continental erosion and on and on. Yet the atheist and the New Ager refuse to even look at all this evidence all the while considering themselves open minded. Domino applies the same logic to the Great Pyramid Different theories. The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three smallest cok pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt in Africa, and is the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is believed to have been built as a tomb for Fourth dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu (hellenized as Χεωψ, Cheops) and constructed over a 20 year period concluding around 2560 BC.[1] . It is sometimes called Khufu's Pyramid or the Pyramid of Khufu.[2] In the Great Pyramid of Giza he discovered ancient graffiti in Relieving Chambers, with the name 'Khufu' and 'Khnum-Khufu' enclosed in cartouches. There has been some degree of controversy regarding the validity of the graffiti discovery and its potential forgery by Vyse and his colleagues [2], however given its precarious location it is hard to believe it could have been inscribed after construction So there is a controversy there but regardless of which side is correct that does not prove who actually built it just who commissioned it. http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/070391.html An article in Harvard Magazine suggests that the workers were not slaves. I find the argument unconvincing and seeing that Harvard is spending a million dollars to disprove the existence of God one cannot consider them unbiased. The article itself snubs the Bible. Neverthe less it shows that who built the Pyamids is not a known fact. This site confirms the controversy. http://www.sacredsites.com/africa/egypt/great_pyramid.html The attribution to Khufu of the Great Pyramid is founded solely upon three very circumstantial pieces of "evidence":  The legends told to and reported by Herodotus who visited the pyramids in 443 BC  The funerary complex near the Great Pyramid with inscriptions citing Cheops/Khufu as the reigning pharaoh  In the pyramid itself, on a granite slab above the ceiling of the main chamber, some small, red ochre paint marks that have a slight resemblance to a hieroglyphic symbol for the name of Khufu. Yet another dissenter. Who built the Great Pyramid? One of the enigmas about the Great Pyramid is who built it. There are many theories, but certain factors have to be taken into consideration in answering this question. For example, the astronomical calculations found on the Great Pyramid determine that is was literally impossible for the Egyptians to have designed it. Quoting Max Toth’s book points out his fact. "Nonetheless, Egyptians are thought to have been exceedingly backward in astrology; their meteorology and division of the seasons in their system has convinced researchers that no true system of cosmology could have originated among them. These researchers indicate that Egyptian astronomy was primitive (p. 192)." The fact is that the pyramid is there. Everything else is conjecture. We were not there and have no clear historical record. The majority of academia wants to convince people the Bible is untrue. So they dismiss any evidence that suggests it is and presents their own opinion as fact.
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Assholina: Science does not deal with ASSUMTIONS, but with hypotheses and theory than can either be proved or disproved. It is only religon that is based on unprovable ASSUMPTIONS....like dead men rising from the grave and flying off to to some Celestial disneyland....or leprosy cured by a snotty handkerchief!!! As to the Pyramids, you are...as usual...about FIFTY YEARS behind the times. Not only have archeologists found out WHO built the pyramids of Giza, (and the other 80 pyramids that still exist) but they have discovered the ENTIRE CITY, on the Giza Plateau, in which the workmen (and their families) lived, and records of the PAY and RATIONS they received. A measure of your blind ignorance is in ignoring the records that exist for even the FIRST PYRAMID built in Egypt, the Step Pyramid designed and built for King Dzoser by his architect Imhotep, Three Hundred years BEFORE the Great Pyramid of Khufu, and the lesser Pyramids built for King Unas and his daughter!!! The Pyramids were not built by "slaves" but by highly skilled corps of masons, mathematicians, surveyors, stonecutters and thousands of 'grunt' laborors "working for the glorification of their GOD-KING"!!!!!! Get your head out of your ass, pudd...and catch up to the 21st Century. The Pyramids don't have a damn thing to do with your b

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