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View Poll Results: How True do you think the Book of Mormon is? | |||
Every word of it is true. | 8 | 22.86% | |
It's mostly true, but with a couple of errors. | 11 | 31.43% | |
The events are more or less true, but reported with an extreme historical bias. | 6 | 17.14% | |
The text could very roughly correlate to a plausible series of events. | 3 | 8.57% | |
Some Joe pulled the thing out of his hat. It's false. | 7 | 20.00% | |
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04-28-2007, 04:00 PM | #21 |
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I'm making no affirmative claims here. Just asking those who claim an element of historicity to provide a fly speck of evidence to prove their claim, which implies necessarily it is empirically grounded.
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04-28-2007, 05:19 PM | #22 | |
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04-28-2007, 09:54 PM | #24 |
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04-29-2007, 12:04 AM | #25 |
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I wonder if I'm the only one here who has been to Lake Titikakka. I confess Egypt proabably didn't cross my mind while I was there. Well, okay, maybe it did. My dad was a big Thor Hyerdol fan, and I was with him. He may have talked about the reed boats.
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04-29-2007, 12:30 AM | #26 |
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I knew nothing about Mormons when I watched Thor Hydahl's reed boat traverse the ocean. That was fascinating to me. Although Thor did not prove the Eygyptian crossed the ocean, he showed it could have been done by boats of that genre.
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"Owing to poor scholarship, coupled to a lack of scientific methodology in his undertakings, much of Heyerdahl's life work is controversial. Serious scholars see a lack of necessary caution in Heyerdahl's conclusions and theories, as well as contempt for previous, less sensational, scholarly work on the same issues. Therefore he is not considered a serious scientist, but an adventurer in intellectual circles worldwide. "Nevertheless, on the positive side, it can be said that Heyerdahl's books served to inspire several generations of readers. He introduced young people to the arid fields of archaeology and ethnology by making them attractive through his colorful adventures. This Norwegian adventurer often broke the bounds of conventional thinking and was unapologetic for doing so. 'Boundaries?', he is quoted as asking, 'I have never seen one but I hear that they exist in the minds of most people.'" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl
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04-29-2007, 02:29 AM | #29 |
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My cousin was near that lake for 22 months of his mission. He stood out, as he was 6'4" and about 230 lbs. back then. And he has blond hair and fair skin. I don't know if he saw any Egyptians, but then, he may not have been looking for any Egyptians. But he did eat fermented potatoes.
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I have not seen him mentioned. I liked him, as a kid, when I wasn't LDS. Was he LDS? He just seemed to have some cool adventures, that was all.
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