Dinosaurs helped build the pyramids, school director says

How many whole dinosaur skeletons would they have had to find?

I can’t see the primitives having the time to sit around and reassemble a carefully dug up skeleton just to see what it looked like. That’s the kind of thing one could do if every waking moment wasn’t about surviving.

How many whole dinosaur skeletons would they have had to find?

Probably they just found skulls and part of the spine.

I can’t see the primitives having the time to sit around and reassemble a carefully dug up skeleton just to see what it looked like.

Why would they have to do that? They just saw big toothy skulls sticking out of the ground and assumed whatever it was just died. And that there were probably more of them tooling around out there in the woods. They extrapolated the rest by imagination.

Fossils don’t necessarily have to be carefully dug up. They can be fairly obvious when eroding out of exposed rock. Depending on how complete the skeleton is, it can be quite evident that the bones are from a very large animal that no longer exists. The Lakota Indians in the South Dakota Badlands found dinosaur fossils and were inspired to devise legends of river monsters. (Google Lakota, Badlands, fossils for a number of references.)

“If laborers were cutting the stones, where is the scrap from the trimming, bad blocks, and the blocks that fractured or were damaged in transit? There are not any...

That reminds me of the time I found myself traveling in Egypt with a tour group who thought they were all reincarnated ancient Egyptians, who in turn had been reincarnated Atlanteans. One of them remarked that there wasn't any evidence of the stonecutting the Egyptians were supposed to have done. And I looked around me at a landscape that was basically nothing but sand and rocks of various sizes, and thought, "Huh? What are you looking for?"

On another occasion we were looking at a long flight of steps carved in the side of a cliff, leading up to what we were told was a crypt. One person said, "I'd hate to have been a pallbearer in those days," to which another replied, perfectly seriously, "Oh, it wasn't a problem because they had the secret of levitation." And I just thought, "WHAT DID THEY NEED THE STEPS FOR THEN???" Sometimes people just don't think things through.

Occultism, “Atlantis Rising” nonsense, space alien technology, etc. also plays big amongst the “Egyptians couldn't have built the pyramids” groups.
Add in a large helping of acquired ignorance and we have people actually arguing that levitation and ultra sound was used to move and cut stone in ancient Egypt.
Amazing, truly amazing.

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