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You don’t want evidence; you want your innocence back. I can’t give either to you. Search, ponder and pray –or don’t. But don’t pretend that your mythos is anything more than a fictional and deranged view of the world ... such arrogance is unhealthy. Last edited by tooblue; 06-03-2008 at 04:17 PM. |
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Also, southern Mexico, at the time of European arrival, had the highest population density in the world. Moreover, even with modern knowledge, there are still disputes over the number of dead in wars, sometimes the disputed number is the hundreds of thousands! (i.e. Vietnam). |
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Let me as you a question: If your mantra is nothing is certain, why are you so certain the Book of Mormon is a historical account, absent even a mustard seed of evidence? Your certainty there's something out there (in the face, as I have noted, of a great deal of evidence impeaching the B of M), doesn't seem to jibe with "nothing is certain." Are you saying you're agnostic on the issue, just hoping?
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I bet if you dug a hole for a house in those areas you might run into all kinds of evidence of humans thousands of years old.
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I'm sure the Mayans/Aztecs/etc. developed pyramid "technology" in a vacuum and independent of the Egyptians, Chinese and many others.
I'm sure the presence of cocaine in Egyptian mummies was from extraordinarily effective jetstreams rather than the ability to sail between continents. |
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That's my point. There are in the New World, and they are thousands of years old, though not as densely primarily because of lack of domesticable food and geographic barriers. We can make educated guesses about the origins of these cultures. It has nothing to do with Israel.
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