I’m just going to turn it over to TPM Reader SR because it just got personal on Pyramids …
I am a dedicated reader of your blog but not a subscriber, but I just had to weigh in on the Carson/archaeology discussion because, well, I’ve spent my entire adult life as a professional ancient historian. Frankly, I now know what climate scientists go through – hard working dedicated folks whose work gets dissed for political gain (of course, the archaeology “denialists” are not denying an existential threat as are the climate nay-sayers).
The ancients were incredibly ingenious and resourceful, and yes, they built the pyramids (and Stonehenge, and the Parthenon, etc. etc.) with, well, brains, back power, and oxen. It’s that simple.
As for “Biblical” archaeology – oof! A frankly stupid topic, esp. (to cite but one example) the New Testament and the character of Jesus (utterly irretrievable because Jesus spoke Aramaic and the New Testament was written in Greek well after his death – it would be like someone translating the Gettysburg address a decade or two after one heard it from memory into Spanish – problematic to say the least!)
For me, as of this morning and reading this, my dislike of Carson went from bemused alarm, to something much more personal.
