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Maybe so for this go round at humanity. The civilization that existed before the flood obviously had agriculture.

YES, this.

This is pretty amazing, given one guy discovered this alone in his backyard. I've seen an example of the raising technique performed by a couple of academics on a much smaller scale model. I still want to play devil's advocate here for a moment (I don't come down strongly on any theory about the pyramids or other megalithic structures; history is hard, these things are mysterious regardless of almost any explanation, and so I maintain agnosticism).

(a) These methods are fine to use on an isolated mass, in the open, on a flat surface. Megalithic structures can be found on different kinds of terrain at varying elevations and slopes. Not only this, but structures such as the pyramids are remarkably high. How do we explain movement of multi-ton stones up the kinds of inclines found on the pyramids?

(b) I tend to believe that skepticism over the official story of the pyramids increases among people who have actually built things. There is an intuition a person who builds has for how difficult approaching perfection is, even in very small projects. I'm a woodworker, and I recognize that approaching perfection is something you have to try before you realize what marginal returns look like, i.e. the amount of mastery and years of dedication required just to get minute increases in precision.

Explaining the pyramids is not just a matter of explaining how one moves a (or any single) large stone. The amount of internal symmetry and precision in the pyramids is astounding, together with the fact that their positions with respect to the others (at Giza) shows close astronomical alignment with celestial objects. We're talking about a civilization that existed thousands and thousands of years ago, who only conceivably worked with the crudest practical algebra (and they had no pure mathematics whatsoever).

Further, we are told the work of these pyramids was largely performed by slaves. These kinds of projects strike me as not only requiring a master builder to make plans and supervise, but that they would have been impossible if the workers themselves did not have the knowledge/expertise necessary. It's like saying you could have Rembrandt instruct a low IQ moron in painting, and that 'slave' could produce a Rembrandt.

(c) If techniques like those used in this video were what the Egyptians used, it betrays greater physical and mathematical intelligence than evidence suggests Egyptians really possessed. This is not my point. My point is that, if true, and Egyptians were building mathematically accurate WOOD instruments (of precise lengths for creating the right sized lever arms, yada yada), it seems very strange that such an intelligent race would have foregone the use of wood to build structures. They would have realized the myriad economic advantages of using wood. That is, we are giving them credit for crafting sophisticated wood devices to build with, in order to build theatrically impractical and uneconomical stone megaliths.

Put another way, how do we believe the Egyptians were making contraptions from wood as sophisticated as those seen in this video, but they somehow missed the idea of using wood for making buildings? "Hey, how did the Egyptians move megalithic stones? I've got your answer! First you have to go grab your sophisticated wooden tool and then take that wooden tool over to the actual building materials..."