BuzzFeedNews
has just reminded everyone of a video uploaded to You Tube in 2012. It
contains the 1998 commencement address give by Dr Ben Carson at the
(Seventh Day Adventist) Andrews University in Michigan. These bits made
me feel quite weak:
About the pyramids he said:
My
own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids in order to store
grain. Now all the archaeologists think they were made for the
pharaoh's graves but...Various scientists have said, 'Well, y'know,
there were alien beings that came down and they had special knowledge
and that's how they were - you know - it doesn't require an alien being
when god is with you.
He carefully failed to name the scientists who say that. I wonder why?
About scientists he said:
I
have many arguments - I guess you could call them discussions - with
so-called scientists who think that I should not believe in god.
So-called !?
About abiogenesis he said:
There
were about 8 or 9 panellists - they were all Nobel Prize winners - and
the question came up, how did life originate? And after all their
machinations they finally came to the conclusion that life emanated as a
result of a bunch of promiscuous biochemicals getting together. That
was the best they could come up with.
I think that was Carson's conclusion, not the conclusion of the Nobel Prize winners.
He asked a "well known physicist" about the Big Bang theory:
Would
you reconcile these two things for me - the Big Bang and entropy? Well,
of course, he had no answer. You know they never have an answer...
Carson is a fibber! Physicists do have answers.
But apparently Ben Carson does have the answer - all of the answers - to everything! He said:
That's
the wonderful thing about having a relationship with god. You know God
has already told us what happens so we don't have to come up with
fanciful theories.
And
there it is. One of religion's main attractions. You don't have to work;
you don't have to study; you don't have to do anything too strenuous.
You just hold the bible under your arm and the knowledge of the universe
soaks in through your skin. You are right up there with god almighty
himself. You know everything about everything. All you have to do is
think about something and it is automatically true (because god wouldn't
let you think it if it was untrue!).
Original video here:
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