Donuel... all I said was that the site is devoted to refuting the water pump theory. *I*, as a grate (sic) thinker, made NO (as in none) claims either way. The implication is, of course, that I cannot accept the water pump theory when there are so many unanswered problems with it. As was pointed out by mack, Egypt did not have a large, regular supply of wood...and all the site does is ASK what they might have burned if, as claimed, the pump was operated by fire.

It is not a good argument to go from my pointing out that the pump theory has problems and easy-to-find refutations, to implying that MY thinking is suspect.

The standard rule is...if you MAKE a claim, you are responsible for proving and/or defending it. In this case, you made a claim, asserting your belief in someone else's study. I made NO claim about the ultimate truth of the claim....only that it was far from universally accepted.