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   Ben Carson: Egyptian pyramids were grain stores, not pharaohs' tombs   
      
      
   Dr. Ben Carson stands by remarks made in 1998, but criticised   
   ‘scientists’ who he said claimed pyramids were built by ‘alien beings’   
      
   Egypt’s pyramids were built by the biblical Joseph to store grain and were   
   not, as archaeologists believe, tombs for pharaohs, Republican   
   presidential hopeful Ben Carson has said.   
      
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   The retired neurosurgeon, who is seeking his party’s nomination for the   
   White House, made these remarks in a 1998 address at Andrews University, a   
   Michigan school associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, to which   
   he belongs, in a video posted on Buzzfeed on Wednesday.   
      
   The church is a conservative evangelical (American) Christian one.   
      
    In this 1998 speech, Ben Carson says the pyramids in Egypt were built to   
   store grain   
   “My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain,”   
   Carson – who last week overtook Republican rival Donald Trump for the   
   first time in a national poll – told graduates in his address.   
      
   “Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’   
   graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you   
   stop and think about it.   
      
   “And I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time to store   
   that much grain.”   
      
   Asked on Wednesday if he still held these views, Carson told CBS News:   
   “It’s still my belief, yes.”   
      
      
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   Speaking to MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Thursday, rival Republican Trump said:   
   “He’s informed me about the pyramids. I think I’ll have to put that in my   
   repertoire about Ben. That was a strange deal.”   
      
   In his 1998 address, Carson said: “And when you look at the way that the   
   pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they’d   
   have to be that way for various reasons.   
      
   “And various of scientists have said, ‘Well, you know there were alien   
   beings that came down and they have special knowledge and that’s how, you   
   know, it doesn’t require an alien being when God is with you’.”   
      
      
   In the old testament book of Genesis, Joseph, one of the 12 sons of Jacob,   
   was said to have “stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the   
   sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure”.   
      
   After seven years of plenty, the story in Genesis says, Egypt suffered   
   seven years of famine, during which Joseph was able to feed the people   
   with the grain he had stored.   
      
   Carson has spoken often about his faith, saying recently of his critics:   
   “They say, ‘Carson, you know, how can you be a surgeon, a neurosurgeon,   
   and believe that God created the Earth, and not believe in evolution,   
   which is the basis of all knowledge and all science?’ …   
      
   “But I do believe God created us, and I did just fine … And in fact, the   
   more you know about God, and the deeper your relationship with God, I   
   think the more intricate becomes your knowledge of the way things work,   
   including the human body.”   
      
   Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.   
      
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