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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 480541" data-attributes="member: 2525">I think you better check the usage on "consensus" again.  It is specifically NOT for "only serious opinion held".  The whole purpose of the word is to designate something as having a majority and a minority opinion, either of which could be correct, but with one having a much higher percentage of believers than the other.  Flat Earthers are not a great example, since they are not really a substantial minority opinion.  A better example might be that there is a consensus right now that global warming is real, and caused by humans.  However, there is a solid minority opinion that there is no global warming, or that it is caused by natural factors.The consensus is that ancient Egypt used slaves to build the pyramids.  That could be incorrect, but it is in fact the consensus opinion of Egyptologists.  You do have, however, a solid minority opinion, held primarily by the current Giza Egyptiologists sponsored by Egypt, that the people who built the pyramids were not slaves or from another country, but were free Egyptians.It is unclear whether the Jewish people were slaves in Egypt during some of the pyramid building (though the consensus is that at least the Nubians were slaves at the time, and helped build the pyramids).  There was not one specific time that the pyramids were built, and some of the pyramids of the region seem to have been built well into the New Kingdom, along with numerous temples.  Mention of the subject in the dead sea scrolls places some pyramid building into the time frame that the Jewish people were supposed to have been slaves in Egypt as well.  Finally, research into the straw content of some of the pyramid bricks may place Jews in Egypt during the time of the Old Kingdom, when pyramids were certainly being built.  It is a subject of quite a lot of debate right now, much of it filtered through political and religious beliefs.  It's going to be interesting watching this debate unfold over the next decade in National Geographic.</blockquote>

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