Was he being serious or just trying to score some sympathy of Jews and Christians?
Nobody has ever found any evidence of Exodus and it isn't like people aren't trying.
Nobody has ever found any evidence of Exodus and it isn't like people aren't trying.
In Poland there is a guy, Janusz Palikot, who in 2005 owned a "Christian", anti-(many things including LGBT) newspaper but later sold it and founded a pro-LGBT, anti-religion political party.
http://www.adventist.org/en/beliefs/humanity/creation/
"God has revealed in Scripture the authentic and historical account of His creative activity. He created the universe, and in a recent six-day creation the Lord made “the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them” and rested on the seventh day."
your exact phrase was:
"Carson is a Seventh-day Adventist, and hence a young-earth creationist."
Ben Carson self-identifies as Seventh-Day Adventist (7DA). Hence, if he follows the doctrine of the church he professes to believe in, he is a YEC.
Now, it is possible for someone to self-identify as a 7DA and not be a YEC, just as it is possible for someone to self-identify as a Catholic and deny the authority of the pope, at least on some matters (e.g. all the self-identified Catholics who deny that the use of birth control is a mortal sin). But Ben Carson is clearly a creationist. He's said so on numerous occasions. Arguing over whether he is a YEC or some other flavor of creationist is really whittling at the margins. He's specifically proclaimed ignorance of the age of the earth. He uses YEC code words like "evolutionist" and "micro-evolution".
Finally, it would be exceedingly peculiar for a 7DA to not be a YEC. The name of the sect derives from their belief in Biblical literalism, and specifically from their belief in creation as described in Genesis. A 7DA who is not a creationist would be like a Mormon who thinks Joseph Smith was a con man. Again, not impossible. People can self-identify as anything they want, and once you've abandoned science and reason anything is possible. But it would be really, really weird.
He's just ignorant. Jews would not vote for someone who knows so little about their history. Christians may not be as familiar with the history.
According to Jewish history Josef stored grain in the year 1532BCE, but the pyramids were mostly finished by 1759BCE, more than 200 years earlier.
The pyramids having anything whatsoever to do with the Exodus is a myth created by Hollywood, it is not a Jewish belief at all.
I meant the idea that Jewish slaves built the pyramids. That idea comes from Hollywood, it is not a Jewish belief.
Any source? Google only returns articles about Carson, so it looks like it may be his idea.
edit: It seems to be an old story, easily predating both Carson and Hollywood.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/secret-chambers-grain-s...