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Dr. W, “If the Book of Mormon were what the LDS Church represents it to be, then apologists should be overjoyed at having such a convenient means of quickly testing the hypotheses with which they hope to demonstrate that the Book of Mormon came into being in the manner that the LDS Church claims. In...

I am sorry if my blog on Interpreter upset anyone here. That was not my purpose. My purpose was also not to make up numbers that would lead to a predetermined conclusion. The purpose of my blog article was simply to point out that Bayes’ rule can help in sorting out the confusing claims and argument...

The apologists move into full damage control mode by (a) contracting an outside specialist to weigh in on the Late War (b) vying for the appearance of fair-mindedness by not dismissing the Johnson's findings outright. I am not an outside specialist, but it's fun to be thought of that way. I've been...

The Larsen study was deeply and hopelessly flawed, so I'm surprised to see you making reference to it. Hilton's study was better, and he did find that Nephi and Alma have different authors. I'm not convinced. There are too many complicating factors that remain unaccounted for. Here are a few exampl...

You’re right, it doesn’t. But I (personally – you might not) have a hard time getting my head around a conspiracy of 3 or 4 con artist types taking turns, staying in character, writing a continuous back stroy, and pulling that off while each writing the profound (and sometimes poetic) stuff found in...

But it’s more than that. The writers didn’t just write different chapters, they consistently wrote as different characters.

The thing that comes strongly from Hilton’s paper is that Nephi’s sand Alma’s doctrinal discourse styles are consistent within speaker, but completely distinct between these speakers. Larsen’s paper agrees with these results using different indicators of style, namely those used by Mosteller and Wal...

Glenn said: So, would it be possible to test for multiple authors using the NSC method by culling Nephi for historical narrative sections and doctrinal sections to produce a historical genre and a doctrinal genre to test the one against the other to ascertain if genre does indeed make a significant...

Glenn said: How well would the Hilton methodology work for discerning differences between many authors since it uses 5000 word blocks of text? Could the NSC method be used for that purpose? The older Larsen, Rencher, Layton study tested twenty-four authors and found statistically significant differ...

[Roger wrote] If Bruce is still paying attention to this thread, or if someone can contact him, there are several of us who would be interested to know whether he thinks indications from word-print studies are that the Book of Mormon was created by more than one author.[/Roger wrote] [Marg wrote] I ...