Hear, Hear!

Bingo! Right on target. I did not buy into his beliefs (there is another video where he espouses the "Earth is 30K years old" belief) but he does have a good track record, and usually makes a lot of sense on political and economic ideas. He is a qualified as any other loon that Barack Baby rolled into DC, and he is not beholding to anyone, that I am aware of. At least I do not believe he will sell out to whatever political group tells him too, like, oh, say the IRS, the Justice Department, the EPA..etc..during the present empire.

Hi OUC,
The actual reasons for the pyramids being built is certainly up in the air. If you ask just about anyone they will say what they were taught that they were burial sites for mummies. There has not been a mummy found in any pyramid in Egypt . They have found many Pharos tombs and the all are filled with hieroglyphs covering the walls and ceilings as well as items to take to the duat. There are no hieroglyphs in the great pyramid .I seriously doubt grain storage was the purpose. My thoughts are that vibrations and energy are part of the machine. Yes it is a machine built of stone. The pyramids especially the great pyramid in Giza is an enigma. Many aspects of thisbuilding is almost impossible to rectify. My studies of it show that the mathematical elements , the precision is almost impossible to comprehend.

I find this post puzzling... is the point to denigrate a brain surgeon for his hypothesis about archeology and to ignore a positive message? Particularly when the archaeological theories are full of holes.

Smells like a progressive rat trap.

His speech included his belief about the pyramids it was in reference to the bible story of Joseph the Slave .In his story Carson speaks of Joseph thinking big (the theme get it ,MM) Being a slave Joseph was determined to be the best slave he could be and he ended up in charge of the Egyptians grain and built the pyramids to store the grain that feed the folks for 7 yrs of drought and Joseph became a top official for the Egyptians.

The idea "rags to riches" by individual achievement. A leftist nightmare.

At a graduation ceremony the students are not attending a class they are preparing for entry to the real world. The speech should be designed to encourage success and contain some element to attain that success? The point of the story was for the graduates to think big and work to attain those goals and he was trying to give them an example, he then followed with his own story of rising from being a crappy student to a world class brain surgeon , oh and he didn't have white privilege.

Just because we don't know how they did it that does not justify jumping to the conclusion that the Egyptians, or the Aztecs for that matter, had extraterrestrial help.

Belief is a general term with respect to mental recall. It it does not specify the reason for the mental content nor does understanding. A belief may indicate that something understood is actually true or that something is just thought to be true through some memory. Suppose you understand something. That does not mean that that is true but only that you can connect logically to facts of reality that you believe to be true. Belief does not necessarily just accept truth on the basis of authority unless one makes that authority oneself which would fit Rand in a great many cases. A priori thought, as in philosophy, can never get reality right just as understanding may be right or wrong. One has to go on what one believes one knows or get caught in spinning one's mental wheels in wasted time continuing to look for the really true facts. For progress in knowledge, errors must be made and corrected and perhaps still be in error for later generations to correct.

That evolutionary process may just be a description of perceived reality and nothing that is some existing cause of evolving systems. There need not be a caused causal chain for some future effect, just chemical actions taking place for no reason other than they can happen. Things may just evolve as accidents which can happen with no intelligent design behind them except for rare exceptions due to some rational beings who most of the time act nearly automatically.

That pretty much describes my view of the universe. I use the label "atheist" easily, but under that are many unknowns. The Universe did not have a Creator, but Earth may well have. After all, we build houses ... in outer space...

Nominal atheists Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins agreed that what we perceive at the subatomic level may be consequences of something else that we do not perceive but the understanding of which would answer some questions. Beyond that, they had no opinions ...

Actually, there is no real evidence to assume anyone was ever buried in there. The three Pyramids are unique not just for their size, but for the fact that they are almost completely devoid of any decoration or glyphs claiming to belong to anyone. What there is also does not correlate to dates either. It is one of he odd things about them, and also was a reason the grain theory became popular to explain it.

Thats what I think, as well. I do not want people in any office who have their own agenda, and will manipulate things to fit it. Enough of that in the last 8 years....

Sorry I think she would see the intention of the messenger as the important aspect, not the unproven theory used to illustrate it.

I'm sure "some" scientist think this, we all seem to have an opinion on the subject so I wouldn't call the statement incorrect but Mike just suggested the link between this and fake news that might be correct.

As I understand it, along the line of "Putin to Sing at Trump Inaugural" Andy Borowitz was googling "Ben Carson + homes" to find something that he could use and found the old story about his speech at Andrews University, truth being stranger than fiction.

Try being a Pediatric Neuro surgeon without being bright. Doesn't work well, especially for the patients.
Some of his religious beliefs and views of acient history may be off of main stream, that doesn't make him any less bright, just of main stream.