Standing Alone: the Great Pyramid

It does not take "ultra-intellect" to build sloping passages. It's not rocket science. Nor is it particularly "marvellous". There are lots of sloping passages in the world. There are others in Egypt: the use of sloping passages did not die out:The Theban tombs of the 18th Dynasty are composed of three main architectural elements : a courtyard, a rock-cut chapel intended for the funerary cult, and one or several underground chambers where the coffin and the funerary equipment were deposited. These chambers, usually undecorated, are most often accessed by a deep shaft or a sloping passage dug into the hill. *

Not writing stuff is not evidence of an ultra-intellect. Anyone can not write hieroglyphics. How? Out of stone.They had not "just" emerged from the Stone Age; the pyramids were built a thousand years after the dawn of the Bronze Age. You might as well say that Europe is "just emerging" from the Black Death. Obviously, "evolution" does not say that. Archaelogy, on the other hand, tells us that the pyramids were built by a civilized, literate people who'd been using metal for the past thousand years.

So let's see if I've got this right: if you adjust the chronology of the Bible to fit the dimensions of the great Pyramid, you find the the chronology of the Bible then fits the dimensions of the Pyramid.Now that's just spooky. Color me convinced. Well, someone's got to do it; and we're not convinced that it would be safe in your hands.

Well, there's something a teensy bit wrong with your reasoning.You know that the world is round; does that make you "ultra-intelligent"?There is also something wrong with your facts. Medieval Europe was well aware that the world was round. The popular myth that they thought otherwise originates, it would seem, in a story for children about Columbus by Washinton Irving. The fact that the world was round had been known in Europe long even before the Christian era.

Right. It was built around the same time as the others, on the same site, from the same materials, taken from the same quarries, using the same techniques, in the same shape, with the same orientation, but it has ascending passages so it must have been built by a completely different set of people.In the same way, although the Sydney Opera House otherwise has all the hallmarks of twentieth-century architecture, no other building has a roof like that, so it must have been built by space aliens.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

During the Upper Paleolithic? That's funny, I could have sworn that a few pages ago someone was telling us that "evolution" said that the Great Pyramid was built by "cavemen".Oh look, it was you, post #29. And now you want to date the building of the G.P. 7500 years earlier than scientists say it was built.You asked, indeed: And now you want to put the building of the G.P. in the Stone Age?I find this a little strange. The Pyramid of Khafre has a passage system. No mummy was ever found in the Pyramid of Khafre. All the treasure had been removed from the Pyramid of Khafre. Also, if you look at the pictures, you will see that Khafre's tomb was not covered with writing, as you have claimed in earlier posts was the case, but with much simpler designs.And, could I remind you, they are built on the same site out of the same materials in the same shape.The trivial differences between them are smaller than the differences by which I could "prove" that my house was built by a different civilization from my neighbor's. As determined how?What temperature is it inside the Pyramid of Khafre?

OK, let's clear a few things up.First of all, the Egyptian Book of the dead does not mention the "pillar of Enoch". Here is a link to the Egyptian Book of the DeadSecond, no ancient writer ever used the phrase "pillar of Enoch". This phrase was invented by Freemasons * to describe the pillars which the Jewish historian Josephus described in Book I ch. ii v iii of his Antiquities. *Third, there is no other testimony for these pillars except Josephus.Now let's look at what Josephus wrote.Now this Seth, [Adam's third son] when he was brought up, and came to those years in which he could discern what was good, became a virtuous man; and as he was himself of an excellent character, so did he leave children behind him who imitated his virtues. All these proved to be of good dispositions. They also inhabited the same country without dissensions, and in a happy condition, without any misfortunes falling upon them, till they died. They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad to this day. *Some points to note in the account of Josephus:* Josephus does not use the term "pillar of Enoch".* Josephus says that the children of Seth made pillars. He does not say that the pillars were pyramids.* Pyramids are not pillars. Josephus knew the word "pyramids", which he uses in book 2 chapter 9 of his Antiquities*. If he wanted to say that they were pyramids, he could have. He didn't; he said that they were pillars.* Josephus does not say that the pillars were in Egypt, but "in the land of Syriad".* Josephus knows and uses the word "Egypt", to describe Egypt, as when he discusses the captivity of the Jews*. The word "Syriad" appears nowhere else in Josephus, nor, it would seem, in the entire Classical corpus, describing Egypt or otherwise.* No matter how many sons Seth had, they could hardly have built the Great Pyramid all by themselves.* The pillar of stone, according to Josephus, should contain astronomical information and information about the pillar of brick. The Great Pyramid doesn't.Even on your showing, it doesn't. You've been doing the wrong numerology.There are further problems for creationists.The first is that according to this account the pyramid was before the Flood. According to most creationists, the Flood was the cause of geological strata. Why isn't the GP buried?The second is that the sedimentary rocks from which the GP is constructed contain fossils.---It's amazing how much wrongosity you've managed to cram into so few words.