Anthony Wrote:
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> To infer that the degree measure in question was
> intentional so as to create an exact alignment,
> one must first show that the culture in question
> could and did use that particular degree measure.


All we need is the physical reality of the shafts. We don't need to establish how they did it. They did it, right?


> Many of the shaft alignment speculations require
> the conversion of the degree measures to seqeds,
> and then the measure of the star elevation to the
> nearest seqed as well. This is the only
> appropriate way to do this task, since using
> degrees was not an option for the pyramid
> builders.


I'm repeating myself now, so I'll step out after this. You are using a strawman argument. Of course they didn't use degrees, that's our thing. You make it sound as if we are required to prove they used degrees - we need do no such thing. Using degrees is just our way of looking at it to understand it in our terms.


> Naturally, there's no evidence to suggest the
> shafts pointed at stars anyway,


The shafts pointing at particular stars is evidence.



> but as a matter of
> academic exercise, we need to keep the conventions
> standardized with what we know the Egyptians used.


We don't need to do any such thing, and I honestly no longer know what you are on about. Who _cares_ what they used, they got it done. Pointing at something has the motor skills and intelligence of a toddler.

Cheerio,
AVry