As with consideration of any new idea, especially one of this scope and complexity, I found several basic questions very helpful and instructive during the creation of the hypothesis. Perhaps they will be helpful to you also, please forgive the elementary nature, it seems easy to lose all perspective when talking about this subject matter.
When building a ship, is it built from the deck to the keel, or is everything worked from the laying of the keel?
How do ants build anthills? Has there ever been an ant colony who built one from the base to the top?
What would the end topography and nature of the bedrock look like when excavating a mountain of any size or mining a pit within the earth?
What might be learned from the human body in terms of basic and complex engineering? Ball and socket operations perhaps, the eye and shoulder? Rotational force, circumference travel distance of various parts of the arm and hand? Fluid mechanics, lung expansion and contraction, the bladder and urine excretion? Lever and fulcrum mechanics, muscle and ligament dynamics? Valved passageways, the tongue and alternate breathing, orally and nasally? Timed and alternate fluid pulsing through shafts (veins), as in the jugular pulsing of our vital fluid. Pretty simple, right?
Are we to believe in a 100,000 years, modern Human’s could only observe and expand upon these simple observations for the last 5,000 years, dynamically for the last 250 years?
What is the first necessity of mining in a pit? Getting personnel and material in and out of the pit? How is this accomplished?
Isn’t visual evidence the weakest evidence?
Herodotus didn’t even speak nor understand the language of his source. How is it that this single, undoubtedly sketchy account might become the basis of 2,400 years of written history regarding the Great Pyramids of Giza? Can you image, with intricate and complex societal, commercial, political, and mythical activities of a populous, that there might be only one published Historian given credibility? Can you image only one voice in your city or small village, now can you image that voice not speaking your language and telling your history?
Is it reasonable to attribute to mistake or accident the geodetic nature of the Great Pyramid?
Has Man been conditioned to reject all ideas about the build at Giza?
Is there consensus from the Engineering community on Orthodox build methods?
It is reasonable to conclude that the chambers and shafts of the Great Pyramid had no meaningful function or operation other than the proffered funerary functions?
Is it reasonable that the proffered rationale for all missing evidence, grave robbers, should be the end of all inquiry and speculation regarding the contents of any structure?
What are Orthodox explanations of the precision machining evidenced at Giza and elsewhere?
What are the political, religious, and economic motivations behind Orthodox views?
Isn’t a rolling log an axle and wheel?
Why hasn’t a limestone Butte ever been explored as a possible beginning nature of the Giza Plateau?
Why hasn’t a single attempt to build a similar (true pyramid), of similar size and construction, from the base to the top, achieved the level of precision and perfection of the two largest pyramids at Giza?
Of what depth and weight are the explanations related to the damage to the walls in the “King’s Chamber?”
Is it reasonable that the “air shafts” in the “King’s and Queen’s Chamber” had not a single practical function?
Is it reasonable that the graffiti said to be contemporary to Khufu, is an indication of his constructing the Great Pyramid?
Does it seem reasonable that if Early Nile Man, pre-Dynastic and Dynastic Man, were looking at the three largest structures on the Giza Plateau for thousands of years, they might try to emulate their construction? Would the same apply to the construction of the Ziggurat or any other pyramidal structure?
If you were building within a vertical mine shaft, and had full access to regulated water for that shaft, could you float any size stone on an adequate sized barge to any desired height within that shaft?
Without a single piece of “ramp” evidence on the Plateau, is it historically reasonable to propose ramps were used? Of course it is, the pyramids exist, there they are, the only way to build them was by the use of ramps, right? This is the simplest of circular arguments which has sufficed for an explanation for 2400 years.
Is there a single reason, logical or otherwise, that would disallow the Great Pyramid from being a stone steam engine built 12,000 years ago by Plato’s Atlanteans?
What happens when the beginning changes?