Ben carson pyramids grain storage, For 107 long summer and autumn days Donald Trump was the front runner in the Republican primary campaign, his dominance baffling political pundits and horrifying some establishment figures in his own party.
Finally on Wednesday he was overtaken by Ben Carson, a retired brain surgeon who spent Thursday defending a variety of his positions, including that the pyramids of Egypt were built by Joseph (the one with the technicolour dream coat) for grain storage, and that he (Dr Carson, not Joseph) was in fact guilty of a string of series of savage assaults, including one on his mother.
You will probably need some context to get your head around this.Mr Trump overtook the establishment's preferred candidate, Jeb Bush, towards the end of July in the Real Clear Politics average of national polls, and since then no establishment figure has challenged him.
But about August 27, Dr Carson, another outsider, one whose strong views are belied by his soft demeanour, began to break away from the pack, eventually overtaking Mr Trump in a few state polls, and finally nationally (according to RCP) on Wednesday.
With increased prominence comes increased scrutiny.The day he overtook Mr Trump, a 17-year-old video of him outlining his Pyramids theory in a commencement address at Andrews University was unearthed by Buzzfeed.
"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," he explained to the graduating students.
"Now all the archaeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs' graves.
He went on to say, "[W]hen 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."
The author Erich von Daniken (in books such as Chariots of the Gods?, first published in 1968) argued for extra-terrestrial influence on ancient human civilisations, including the pyramid builders of ancient Egypt. However Von Daniken has no scientific qualifications and his work is widely rejected by scientists.
Asked on Wednesday by CBS if he still backed the theory on the pyramids, Dr Carson – who also believes that evolution is a theory propagated by the Devil – confirmed that he did.
The questions regarding the assaults were raised by a CNN investigation of various claims Dr Carson has regarding his youth.
In a new piece CNN has investigated narrative Dr Carson had made about his life in his 1990 autobiography, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story.
In the book he describes himself as a boy marked with a wild and violent temper who turned his life around with divine intervention. He has often described himself gripping a rock and punching a classmate in the face, stabbing a boy in the abdomen only to have the knife break on a belt buckle, beating a student with a baseball bat and even attacking his mother with a hammer.
But having sent reporters to track down former classmates, CNN could find no corroboration of any of the stories.
Instead, nine former classmates described a quiet and bookish young Carson.
"I don't know nothing about that," one of Dr Carson's former classmates told CNN. "It would have been all over the whole school."
On Thursday, Dr Carson found himself in a odd position for a candidate for high office, insisting that just because reporters could not find any evidence of his past history of violence did not mean it did not happen.
Asked on Thursday why reporters were not able to substantiate his claims, Dr Carson said after a book signing in Florida, "Why would you be able to find them? What makes you think you would be able to find them, unless I tell you who they are? If they come forward on their own because of your story that's fine, but I'm not going to expose them."
In keeping with their status as front runners, it was revealed on Thursday that Mr Trump and Dr Carson will now be afforded Secret Service protection.
Finally on Wednesday he was overtaken by Ben Carson, a retired brain surgeon who spent Thursday defending a variety of his positions, including that the pyramids of Egypt were built by Joseph (the one with the technicolour dream coat) for grain storage, and that he (Dr Carson, not Joseph) was in fact guilty of a string of series of savage assaults, including one on his mother.
You will probably need some context to get your head around this.Mr Trump overtook the establishment's preferred candidate, Jeb Bush, towards the end of July in the Real Clear Politics average of national polls, and since then no establishment figure has challenged him.
But about August 27, Dr Carson, another outsider, one whose strong views are belied by his soft demeanour, began to break away from the pack, eventually overtaking Mr Trump in a few state polls, and finally nationally (according to RCP) on Wednesday.
With increased prominence comes increased scrutiny.The day he overtook Mr Trump, a 17-year-old video of him outlining his Pyramids theory in a commencement address at Andrews University was unearthed by Buzzfeed.
"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," he explained to the graduating students.
"Now all the archaeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs' graves.
He went on to say, "[W]hen 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."
The author Erich von Daniken (in books such as Chariots of the Gods?, first published in 1968) argued for extra-terrestrial influence on ancient human civilisations, including the pyramid builders of ancient Egypt. However Von Daniken has no scientific qualifications and his work is widely rejected by scientists.
Asked on Wednesday by CBS if he still backed the theory on the pyramids, Dr Carson – who also believes that evolution is a theory propagated by the Devil – confirmed that he did.
The questions regarding the assaults were raised by a CNN investigation of various claims Dr Carson has regarding his youth.
In a new piece CNN has investigated narrative Dr Carson had made about his life in his 1990 autobiography, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story.
In the book he describes himself as a boy marked with a wild and violent temper who turned his life around with divine intervention. He has often described himself gripping a rock and punching a classmate in the face, stabbing a boy in the abdomen only to have the knife break on a belt buckle, beating a student with a baseball bat and even attacking his mother with a hammer.
But having sent reporters to track down former classmates, CNN could find no corroboration of any of the stories.
Instead, nine former classmates described a quiet and bookish young Carson.
"I don't know nothing about that," one of Dr Carson's former classmates told CNN. "It would have been all over the whole school."
On Thursday, Dr Carson found himself in a odd position for a candidate for high office, insisting that just because reporters could not find any evidence of his past history of violence did not mean it did not happen.
Asked on Thursday why reporters were not able to substantiate his claims, Dr Carson said after a book signing in Florida, "Why would you be able to find them? What makes you think you would be able to find them, unless I tell you who they are? If they come forward on their own because of your story that's fine, but I'm not going to expose them."
In keeping with their status as front runners, it was revealed on Thursday that Mr Trump and Dr Carson will now be afforded Secret Service protection.
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