Of course they would laugh at such absurdities. And Gee would not present them as being true astronomical knowledge because he knows it's not.Rivendale wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 7:13 pmI can just picture Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson or Stephen Hawking expressions when informed about Hah-ko-kau-beam.Alphus and Omegus wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 6:38 pmI listened to the whole interview. It was nothing new whatsoever. Just Gee repeating his typical talking points, including one outright lie which has been discussed here a few times.
Gee goes on to make numerous ludicrous claims about the astronomy of the Book of Abraham and completely ignores the totally made-up Egyptian history in the book. He knows this is the weak point of his argument and so rather than even try to address it, he hopes that his gullible listeners don't even see.
There are two interesting behaviors in Gee's engagement with the Book of Abraham astronomical ideas:
1) He utterly ignores how the Book of Abraham represents thinking that was current in the mid 19th-century.
2) Gee tries to put the Book of Abraham's astronomy is Egyptian terms. This fails as a historical matter, but it also is an act of apostasy. The book is supposed to be perceived as the literally true description of how planets and stars function. Instead, Gee tries to just dismiss it as reflective of ancient Egyptians' false perceptions about astronomy.