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Free Indeed · 04-06-2009, 07:13 AM

This should help explain why there is no written record of a global flood in Egypt. It’s because Egypt wasn’t inhabited until after the flood and tower of Babel.

Genesis 11:4 “Then they said, "Come, let's build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky.” The Hebrew word for tower in Genesis 11 is “migdal” and the original word is “idgm” which could mean elevated stage, or figuratively, a pyramidal bed of flowers: – castle, flower, tower. This gives support that the tower of Babel was pyramidal or shaped similar to a ziggurat. This could explain why we see ziggurat shaped structures around the world by ancient people, they were built by people who were scattered from Babel. It makes sense that people from Babel took the tower design ideas to their new lands.

Tom Sawyer · 04-06-2009, 07:19 AM

Ya, because there's no other explanation as to why people in two different places would both figure out how to build structures that are wider at the bottom than they are at the top. I'm convinced.

Keith&Co. · 04-06-2009, 07:33 AM

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It makes sense that people from Babel took the tower design ideas to their new lands.

But the tower was the way they angered God and got punished by him. Wouldn't it make more sense that anyone establishing a nation after Babel would outlaw and avoid doing anything so obviously likely to risk pissing off the skybeast?

But still, if you're going to offer 'evidence' of the relative dates of the Egyptian Pyramids and Babel, you're going to have to offer evidence of Babel that's of equal investigative value to the big rocks out in the desert in Egypt.

'Once Upon A Time' doesn't quite make it.

general_koffi · 04-06-2009, 07:46 AM

There were people in Egypt before they built the pyramids, you know.

Someone had to build them, after all.

Tom Sawyer · 04-06-2009, 08:00 AM

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There were people in Egypt before they built the pyramids, you know.

Someone had to build them, after all.

They could be natural formations from the swirling waters of the big flood piling up some rocks and then some of Noah's kids hollwed them out and made tombs.

Can you prove that's not true? Were you there?

Keith&Co. · 04-06-2009, 08:10 AM

I just remembered, doesn't Hovind say that Adam built the pyramids?
I guess it's a good thing that Free Indeed isn't a Hovind-phile.

Free Indeed · 04-06-2009, 08:18 AM

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It makes sense that people from Babel took the tower design ideas to their new lands.

But the tower was the way they angered God and got punished by him. Wouldn't it make more sense that anyone establishing a nation after Babel would outlaw and avoid doing anything so obviously likely to risk pissing off the skybeast?

But still, if you're going to offer 'evidence' of the relative dates of the Egyptian Pyramids and Babel, you're going to have to offer evidence of Babel that's of equal investigative value to the big rocks out in the desert in Egypt.

'Once Upon A Time' doesn't quite make it.

God looks at the heart and purposes of man. The Egyptians more than likely weren't trying to reach the sky and see God, it looks like they learned that lesson.

Free Indeed · 04-06-2009, 08:26 AM

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Ya, because there's no other explanation as to why people in two different places would both figure out how to build structures that are wider at the bottom than they are at the top. I'm convinced.

The Hebrew Bible reports that everyone conjugated in Shinar or Mesopotamia after the flood and spoke one language. That seems more logical than man evolving at the same time in different parts of the world under different atmospheric conditions and leaning the same designs.

Free Indeed · 04-06-2009, 08:27 AM

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I just remembered, doesn't Hovind say that Adam built the pyramids?
I guess it's a good thing that Free Indeed isn't a Hovind-phile.

Would you believe that Adam could do that?

Demigawd · 04-06-2009, 08:28 AM

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That seems more logical than man evolving at the same time in different parts of the world under different atmospheric conditions and leaning the same designs.

Who offers this theory?:huh:

04-06-2009, 07:13 AM	#1
Free Indeed Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Southeast Posts: 1,607	Evidence the Egyptian Pyramids were built after the Tower of Babel This should help explain why there is no written record of a global flood in Egypt. It’s because Egypt wasn’t inhabited until after the flood and tower of Babel. Genesis 11:4 “Then they said, "Come, let's build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky.” The Hebrew word for tower in Genesis 11 is “migdal” and the original word is “idgm” which could mean elevated stage, or figuratively, a pyramidal bed of flowers: – castle, flower, tower. This gives support that the tower of Babel was pyramidal or shaped similar to a ziggurat. This could explain why we see ziggurat shaped structures around the world by ancient people, they were built by people who were scattered from Babel. It makes sense that people from Babel took the tower design ideas to their new lands.

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04-06-2009, 07:19 AM	#2
Tom Sawyer Talk Freethought Staff Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Toronto, eh Posts: 42,293	Ya, because there's no other explanation as to why people in two different places would both figure out how to build structures that are wider at the bottom than they are at the top. I'm convinced.

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general_koffi Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa Posts: 10,887	There were people in Egypt before they built the pyramids, you know. Someone had to build them, after all.

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Keith&Co. Contributor Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Pittsfield, Mass Posts: 24,500	I just remembered, doesn't Hovind say that Adam built the pyramids? I guess it's a good thing that Free Indeed isn't a Hovind-phile.

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