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Wow, Lemmie. That is an amazing discovery. I thought the game was rigged rhetorically (their reliance on absence of available data as a point of comparison), but I had no inkling the rigging went down to this level. This is willful distortion on Skousen’s part. He’s actually adjusting the evidence t...

He strikes me as someone who has cosplayed as a scientist too long and now can't get out of character enough to see it's ridiculous. ("Here's my published paper. When you've done the work and been published, we can talk. Good day." Hands over gibberish written on a Best Western note pad.) :lol: :lo...

A few things, Physics Guy: First, Robert Smith's commitment to any kind of rigor is nicely exemplified and discussed in my note above regarding his use of Demotic in a document authored by Oliver Cowdery: he takes a single symbol written beneath the word "book" in that document for the title "Book o...

How dare these progressives attempt to undermine the mind-numbing authoritarianism of the Church with their own mind-numbing authoritarianism! Stupid, doctrinaire conservatives at BYU have long been used to giving free and vociferous rein to their impulses and have a difficult time shutting up about...

If we accept Cahill's premise that what is required of a faith to nourish is that it has a profound intellectual tradition, then, of course, he is making a kind of valid point. That said, I would say that anyone who belongs to any faith in which Jesus features as the primary savior figure ought to ...

I haven't got to PacMan yet in that thread, but I noticed Robert F. Smith's claim regarding a character on this document . Yes, the character for “book” in the phrase "Book of Mormon" is written nearly identical to a known early Demotic Egyptian form of mdЗt “book.” He references a page in Wolja Eri...

I can well imagine the nervous tension in the group at the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese when the chief translator gave his pep talk, "Look lads, we will make merry if the mead be fine, but in less than 500 years yon Symmachus shall be picking us apart unless we get this Hebrew grammar right. Let's buckl...

"This guy is telling me that some stars really do form a lion. Therefore, there must be some mind that is designing lions and other animals in the sky." "But those constellations are patterns that the human mind imposes on what it observes; the stars themselves only appear to form a pattern. Let me ...

Even funnier, given you apparently have no clue what’s going on. I haven’t kept up with this particular thread. I did read the original Early Modern English stuff back when it was first noticed and making the rounds among Mormon intelligentsia. Both sides, LDS and critics, seem to strain at minute ...

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Wed Aug 19, 2020 6:01 pm

Not just straw, but Utah straw. No wonder Thomas never wrote more.

Duns Supreme Court was understandably discouraged as well, I would guess.

It kept changing s-c-o-t-us to "Supreme Court" once I clicked "submit," so I deleted it, but now I wish I hadn't.