David Stewart, Sr.  (c) 2007

I have said, proved, and documented in previous installments that Egyptology needs an overhaul. The same could be said of all "pure" as opposed to applied, sciences. If the pure sciences were put on the same footing as the applied sciences, we would go along way toward ridding the world of false notions.

How did we get into this mess?

The first giant step in this black, subliminal psychological warfare was to change the name of the field. It was no longer philosophy, and its practitioners philosophers. After all, anybody can philosophize. We’ll call the field "science" and its practitioners "scientists." We have just promoted ourselves from "believers" to "those who know." We have arrogated to our conjectures and theories the honors and prestige previously only granted to proven discoveries. We no longer have to prove anything. We will rule the minds of men by fiat. We will hire men like Carl Sagan to make videotapes which will be mandatory viewing for all our children’s biology classes, wherein he will declare, authoritatively: "Evolution is not a theory. It is a fact!"

The second step is that we will seize control of the credential granting authority and arrogate it to ourselves. We will claim that we own this authority and anyone who has not received it from our hands does not have it. If anyone dares ask where we got it, we will simply say that we have always had it. If we go back far enough, any issue can be clouded into obscurity.

Then we will demand that any practitioners of our field must receive our permission - we’ll call them credentials - to do so. Now we have self-perpetuating authority. We have job security. We also have social security. Anyone who wishes to earn our credentials must do so by praising us. If the praise is not adequate, not long enough, not loud enough, not sincere enough, we will withhold our credentials and bestow them upon those who are more worthy. If anyone claims to have discovered something that threatens our position, we will discredit him.

To achieve this, we will create the concept of "acceptable evidence." We will define it as anything, however tenuous or specious, that lends credence and prestige to our theories. Anything that calls our doctrine into question will be defined, a priori, as a hoax, as inadmissible evidence. We need not even deign to look at it, much less consider it. After all, how can it be valid if it does not support our "established" doctrine?

We will award prestigious prizes - they will be prestigious because we will call them prestigious - to those who come up with new explanations, however flawed in fact or reason, that tend to vindicate our doctrines in spite of ever increasing evidence to the contrary.

Thus, we will outmaneuver the ancient savages at their own game. We will wage a jihad - religious war, but we will win because we will call it something else. We will call it "the scientific method," but of course we will be not only the judge, jury, and executioner of all defendants brought before us. We will also be the legislators and interpreters of the legislation.

We will force everyone to accept our religion because we will call it something else. We will call it "pure science."

We will get away with brainwashing because we will call it something else. We will call it "compulsory education." Who could object to being educated? Nobody but a moron.

We will sneer old unenlightened, restrictive moral values out of existence. We will righteously proclaim that real virtue is universal tolerance. We will tolerate anybody and anything. The only crime will be to disagree with anything we say.

Our religion will be universally enforced by all governments, once again, because we will not call it religion. By calling it "pure science" our religion will reign supreme. After all, anyone who disagrees with us is an ignoramus.

Our high priests will be esteemed above the prophets of any religion. After all, religion is just a set of unsubstantiated beliefs - that’s how we’ll define "faith." Persons who embrace our religion - uh, science - will be esteemed for merely entering the field and receiving the blessing of our holy water - uh, credentials. We will look down our noses at applied scientists - engineers - who really do the world’s work. We are above such vulgarity. We won’t soil our hands with honest labor. Why should we, when our position raises us above the unwashed masses? We will exalt philosophers - uh, scientists, and abase plumbers. If in process of time neither our theories nor our pipes hold water, rest assured. We will come up with a plausible explanation that will fill, nay, overflow, the minds of the proletariat, even if their cups remain empty.

Well, enough of that. A simple start at the much needed overhaul would be simply to put the "pure sciences" on the same footing as the applied sciences. With the applied sciences, we have nice cars, reliable airplanes, universal telecommunication, good health treatments, and so on. What do the "pure sciences" have to show for themselves? Nothing but religion bashing.

For example, instead of oohing and aahing over an Egyptologist and providing him with a sinecure in a prestigious institution, why not insist that he translate ancient records correctly? Let him furnish accurate, reliable translations, and let us think for ourselves and judge for ourselves. Only a phony needs to tell you what to think. Do you know that there is not one Egyptologist in the world that reads early Egyptian hieroglyphs correctly? No, not one, nor all of them combined! You know perfectly well what would happen to any translator in the Defense Department, or any other branch of government or industry, if he translated anywhere nearly as badly as the Egyptologists, paleontologists, and so on.

Dr. Barry Fell, proclaimed by many to be the best linguist [I assume they must qualify that by meaning ancient language] in the world, claims to have translated the Hephaistos Disk using - consider this - Polynesian languages as the database to map these ancient symbols on to! Logical nexus?

In number 4 of Ancient American, Frank Joseph has an excellent article on the Newberry Tablet. He laments "With all due respect to Dr. Fell, I do not understand how he arrived at his interpretation of the Newberry find, if he based his translation on ‘Minoan-Hittite,’ a language in which the artifact is clearly NOT written." [p. 27.] [Emphasis in original]

For hundreds of years, sincere believers in Scripture and their own religious traditions, have sought in vain for secular historical confirmation of their beliefs. I want to shout from the housetops that it is not because the confirmation was not there. It is because of the utter incompetence of those arrogating to themselves superior knowledge over the prophets and Scriptures, while the truth of the matter is that they have been utterly ignorant of Joseph’s ziggurat at Saqqarah, the Egyptian records of Joseph and Potiphar [which they ignorantly suppose is "the tale of the two brothers"], the ridiculous notion that the Egyptians believed their hearts would be weighed against a feather at the Bar of Judgment, and so on, all because they not only have been ignorant and incompetent, but because of their arrogance they refuse to believe that prophets or Scriptures can possibly know anything they do not, so there is no help of educating them. "Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit [= opinion, viewpoint]? There is more hope of a fool than in him."

Typically illustrative of this arrogant ignorance was the statement of the managing editor of a church publication who suggested to Dr. Hugh Nibley that when he [Nibley] died, the deceased prophet Joseph Smith would have a lot of questions to ask him! To his credit, Dr. Nibley handled this affront to Joseph’s intelligence with his typical graceful demeanor, intimating that perhaps the editor had an orientation problem.

I did want you to consider the implications of what has been done to us, having foolish atheistic speculations forced upon us while eyewitness accounts such as we have in Scripture are rejected out of hand. You know what would happen to all this sophistry if we did not allow them the double standard they arrogate to themselves and it were put on the same footing as our jurisprudence or applied science. The good news is, all this phony science will be purged from the face of the earth as a prerequisite to the Second Coming, as prophesied. It takes time. Don’t hold your breath.