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.

The pyramids are wonderful examples of what can be built when people are compelled by force to "work together" for some greater cause.

You got that right Abaco! Medical doctors are not different.

So long as he does not bring his Millerite ideas to government, who cares? His political goal is to do something about the inner cities, and so far his ideas in that regard look good.

Me dino has seen diagrams of the burial chambers and the corridors to access them.
Jamming grain into those things composed almost entirely of stone blocks would be silly.
And what would Egyptians call products made of such grave grain?
Sarcophagus Cereal? Pyramid Pretzels? Dead Donuts? Ghoul Gruel? Mummy Mush?

is it any wonder why Ayn Rand was an atheist, as all objectivists are supposed to be!

There are many theories about the pyramids, the one that seems to be rationally and empirically thought out and observed is that they are much older than the Egyptian civilization. As for what they were used for...a source of power is an interesting one.

However, it's pretty clear that nothing to date probably comes even close to the actual reasons they were built or used for...It would be a total waist if used for pagan mystical burial tomes or grain storage.
Pagan, bicameral man and his pagan bicameral rulers, (human or not) may not have been conscious entities quite yet but I don't think they were all that stupid.
So to chide Carson on this point is silly because no one has the answers and we all have a thought or two on the subject.

The fundamental problem here is the difference between belief and understanding. Belief is uncritical and accepts "truth" on the basis of authority. Understanding begins with skepticism and demands to know "why" before accepting the validity of a statement. It is the difference between believing that two plus two makes four and knowing why two plus two makes four. I know a number of very competent physicians that are also deeply religious. I suspect that when one becomes aware of the astonishing complexity of the human body it is difficult to accept that such a thing could come about purely by chance. As a physicist I am aware of forces and processes in the cosmos that we understand dimly at best. There is compelling evidence that there is a universal process by which simple systems evolve into more complex ones and this process rules from the sub atomic to the cosmological. It is tempting to ascribe this phenomenon to a supernatural entity but that, unfortunately, does not alter the fundamental nature of the question, only its scope. I suspect that we will only come to a real understanding of the roll of intelligence in the universe when we arrive at a better definition of intelligence its self.

Just remember one ting. Just because you don't believe something doesn't make you right and the belivers wrong. Look at the history of scrince and you can construt it by taking almost every categorical statement as to the impossibility of something and see that it was sooner or later overturned by factual experiments.
Just take care my friend.

Look, I've worked with enough PhDs to know that a guy can describe the workings of a linear accelerator and not be able to tie his own shoes. I know very bright people who are convinced that aliens have already invaded us. I think Ben has some good marbles in that dome, possibly along with a few oblong ones. I could relate... He could be a hack pediatric surgeon and neither you or I would know. They're out there too. I know one here in town - just a fat, bloated moron. A total failure who is well-protected in a huge HMO.

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.

I never thought Ben was all that bright. Ever. I am inspired by the lady who raised him. I don't think he's a bad guy. But, he has expressed interest in forced medical treatment so I couldn't support him as a presidential candidate. No surprise if he believes in aliens and all that crap. Whatever...Go believe in aliens away from my family.

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.

What is the relationship between Dr. Carson's incorrect idea that scientists think aliens helped build the pyramids and fake news?