A few decades ago, Thor Heyerdahl made a boat out of papyrus and sailed it from Morocco to Cuba. The boat was a direct copy of paintings in Egyptian tombs. The boat worked excellently. Now Dominique Goerlitz is sailing a reed boat from New York back to Africa to prove that the ancients were crossing the oceans regularly.
Goerlitz said he believes the discovery of tobacco beetles and cocaine — native to the Americas — in the Egyptian tombs of Ramses II and Tutankhamen, both of whom lived around 1300 B.C., along with the Stone-Age cave drawings of boats and ocean currents founds near Gibraltar strongly support the idea that trans-Atlantic trade occurred long before Christopher Columbus set sail in 1492.
Source: Deutsche Welle, July 10, 2007
Last night I had a wild thought. During the captivity in Egypt, Israel multiplied exceedingly. When they left Egypt, women outnumbered men by a large amount, as shown by the fact that each man had several wives. What if the Israelites were polygamous because they had a lot of girl babies? What if the reason they had a lot of girl babies is that the Egyptians made the Israelite men drink coffee? According to the book Caffeine Blues by Stephen Cherniske, men who drink more than 6 ounces of coffee per day father 83.7% girls. That means only 1 in 5 of the coffee drinker's children are male. If the Egyptians enjoyed tobacco and cocaine, what are the odds they enjoyed coffee too? Using chemicals to alter your enemies sperm, that certainly counts as witchcraft. How hard would it have been to set up some ancient Starbucks and gave free mugs of coffee to each Israelite slave as part of their daily ration? Caffeine is highly addictive. If only the priests know about the debilitating effects of caffeine, the slaves would have gratefully drank the coffee, not knowing it was lessening their manpower.
The information on coffee comes from George Gordon's tape series on caffeine, aired in June 2007. You can listen to the tapes on MP3 here: George Gordon Radio Archives. George has a good attitude toward drugs. Herbs were made by God for us to use and enjoy, but refining them and abusing them is witchcraft, a crime in God's law. Coca leaf is good, cocaine bad. Opium is good, morphine and heroin are bad. One cigar is like smoking an entire pack of cigarettes. A couple puffs on a cigar are more intense than a whole cigarette.