Man with all his technology still cannot reproduce even the pyramids.
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You don't need technology, just massive numbers of people who are willing to do back breaking (see post on Brokeback Mountain) labor for years with copper or stone tools, using only ramps, levers, ropes, water and muscle power to move heavy limestone blocks, to build a tomb for a God-King. Laborers must be willing to work in the flood season for food and shelter for themselves and their families and will get the farming season off. Jobs will be passed from father to son. Good luck
>>"Man with all his technology still cannot reproduce even the pyramids."<<
Its a little ironic, if Charity is a Biblical literalist, then she is implicitly denying the story of enslaved Israelites building pyramids could have happened in principle.
(And here I was thinking the best reason to disbelieve that Bible story was the appearence of the pyramids 2500 years before the earliest Jews even existed in the first place.)
Charity is dumber then I thought, arguing that as time, science, and technology progress, man becomes dumber.
WOW
Yahweh,
Nobody said that the Jews were involved in pyramid building. It's not in the Bible, at least. Last I heard, it was supposed to be only temples (at most), related buildings, and (most likely) support buildings for more respectful workcrews.
Ironically, not only could we reproduce the pyramids, but we could do in the same amount of time with, roughly, 1/1000 the manpower, using modern technology.
I mean, the pyramids took several years and tens of thousands of workers apiece to build, right?
Well, take a few tens of workers, with heavy lifting equiptment specifically designed for hundred ton blocks of stone (lots of load bearing ramps and rollers, I'd imagine), appropriately scaled and automated quarrying equiptment and machinery, some massive cranes, and such, and I bet they'll get the job done as quickly, or faster, than a thousand times as many egyptians did...
Just because we DO NOT do so doesn't mean that we CAN NOT do so. We just have more reasons to not build a full-scale copy of the Great Pyramid (mainly cost) than we do to build it (mainly just personal gratification). We have not bothered to rebuild the Twin Towers, either, but that doesn't mean we can't.
~David D.G.
Not only can we build pyramids, we can also build hollow ones made of glass, as Vegas's Luxor (itself an engineering marvel) proves.
We don't make stone pyramids anymore because we really don't need to. It'd be a waste of resources (namely, money).
You've obviously never been to Vegas, or Memphis.
Not that we need pyramids all over the place, they're beautiful, but not exactly practical structures.
Man built those pyramids, to celebrate the greatness of the sungod Ra.
If you look at it from practicallity, they are stupid! It took a lifetime, sometimes two or more, to build a tomb for a future dead guy. Why not use all that manpower, all those blocks of stone, all that labor, to build something useful for the whole country instead? Like roads, houses to live in, libraries, schools, belvederes from which you could look at the splendor of the Nile without getting wet or drowned. Things like that.
honey, I guarantee you that not only can we reproduce the pyramids, we can do it a heck of a lot faster then the Ancient Egyptians did it, and with a lot less manpower.
But there's no point to doing it, so we don't.
@Swede
Good thing the Romans had practicality in mind. Aqueducts and road networks.
Too bad the fundies never really think of practicality, it is mostly "glory for God".
Charity wrote: "It may be surprising to learn that evolutionary geologists themselves will not accept a radiometric date unless they think it is correcti.e. it matches what they already believe on other grounds."
It's called cross-referencing the results of different dating methods to make sure they all "match up" with each other. It has nothing to do with belief, and has everything to do with being thorough.
@ Double~shift
I can build one out of sugar cubes! =O
Su-WEEEEET!
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@ LDM
You've obviously never been to Vegas, or Memphis.
Graceland has one?
baDUM-TSSSHH
@#1729721:
Damn, I wanted to post that size comparison.
re: OP
I don’t get why people keep saying this (and yes, I have met at least one person in RL who said the same thing
). They see all these “documentaries” on TV about the various “X’s highest buildings” and their construction, and about the transport of ultra-heavy objects weighing 10 times or more as the stones used for the Egyptian pyramids, but somehow they don’t seem to be able to make the connection.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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