Whilst reading over my usual visit to Boing Boing (from which I abscond with some of their links from time to time), there was an interesting comment in one of the articles that struck my fancy.
There’s a familiar droning phrase from certain Creationism proponents that science should teach, not only about evolution theory, but also about creationism (an idea is not shared by all Creationists, and not all Christians are Creationists), summed up with “Teach the Controversy” in the supposition that, once hearing the truth, believers will spring out thence from that teaching. But anyway.
A T-Shirt manufacturer came out with a number of clever “TeachTheControversy” shirts with very clever designs, such as the ESP testing cards, the flat earth seated upon elephants seated upon a giant tortoise, the devil burying dinosaur bones… and alien spaceships building the pyramids. One commenter remarks..
The interesting thing about the UFOs building pyramids “controversy” is that there are still so many being taught/led to believe that they were built by slaves - a theory generally discredited by archaeologists for a number of years now.
I did not know this idea had changed, myself, so I looked it up. Turns out that the prevailing idea about the architects and laborers of the pyramids were actually a few parts skilled craftsmen, and many more parts land famers who were taking part in honorable labor for the gods when the farming season was over and awash with Nile overflow (according to this, that, and yonder articles.
It’s nice to be in the loop, eh?
