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That's not my point. My point is merely to show that there is circumstantial evidence that a Middle Eastern/Mesoamerican connection of some form existed, even if it wasn't necessarily a strong or enduring one.
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In general I greatly enjoyed reading the thread in the politics forum and reassert as I have elsewhere that the political forum is the most valuable forum on this message board. As an aside I think your Pentateuch and Iliad historicity comparison is a weak analogy. Regardless, I am certain that the Book of Mormon is what it is because of a profound personal witness. For all your boasting, you, nor any other person has offered even a mustard seed of evidence to impeach it’s veracity. Supposition is not evidence. Joseph’s hidden education or supposed genius is not evidence. A lack of genetic markers is not evidence. The literary quality of the writing is not evidence. Lack of specific book of Mormon narrative in hieroglyphics is not evidence etc. etc. I am a complex abstract thinking human being whose ideas and beliefs cannot easily be prosecuted, codified or dismissed. I am an actively engaged member of the LDS faith that I assert was founded by a prophet of God, called to establish the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ upon the earth. |
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Even a post-modernist view, and I appreciate very much sophisticated post-modernism such as Cormac McCarthy's, does not do violence to the evidence. It's about recognizing the continuing vitality of mystery. Not denying reality.
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In the first place, I don't think it's far fetched that ancient Americans and ancient Egyptians independently came up with pyramids. If you have evidence of Old World peoples migrating to the Americas in 600 B.C. out with it! Cough it up.
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