A Very Limited Geography

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Will Schryver wrote:Speaking of which, whatever happened to Craig Criddle?



Do you mean Craig Criddle who did the Book of Mormon authorship wordprint study?
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Simon Belmont wrote:What's this? A post by Scratch without the word "boner" in it?

Could this be an Easter miracle?


What did you tell the moderators about that Stamford Hospital image, Simon?
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Doctor Scratch wrote:What did you tell the moderators about that Stamford Hospital image, Simon?


He apologized for the "boner" he was sporting in the picture...although, with that gut, it wasn't particularly obvious....
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Will Schryver wrote:I am glad, for Southerton's sake, that he has now staggered into The Great and Spacious Trailer Park©, where he's certain to find one of the last bastions of those willing to play sycophant to his long-since eviscerated DNA/Book of Mormon arguments.

It's always comforting to have someone to lean on when you're down to your last leg.

Speaking of which, whatever happened to Craig Criddle?

lol!


Ya, in the same way that Kent Hovind has eviscerated evolutionary biology.

Mopologists only think they have dispensed with the DNA arguments. What they have done is redraw the boundaries of the discussion to make all relevant claims unfalsifiable. This is the usual final resting place of embattled religious claims.
There is no concievable evidence that could not be "eviscerated" in the same way.

If scientists were to finally make a time machine and were ready to go back and directly check this continent for Nephites, the Mormon scientists would be recruited to save the day agan:

"Well, you see, since the time machine will use quantum principles, and since one of the interpretations of quantum mechanics is the many worlds interpretation, we can see that maybe there were no Nephites in some alternate world and it cannot be ruled out that when ....blah blah blah.."


Mopologetics will take on anything --anything--and declare victory. There is always a way.
You yourself have done this.
You know darn well where the evidence really points.
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Simon Belmont wrote:Actually, Simon, I just looked up your book. You have the name of my church wrong in the very title of the book. That, to me, is the first indicator of a strong bias that might distort your findings and presentation of those findings. I hope the inside of the book is better.


LOL, I see you are just trying to create your own bias to dismiss his book so you never have to read it.
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Doctor Scratch wrote:
Will Schryver wrote:It's always comforting to have someone to lean on when you're down to your last leg.


And who are you leaning on, Will? Prof. Skousen? John Gee? Brian Hauglid?

I think it has become quite apparent over the years that I don't lean on others.

I remain bipedal to the present day. Currahee!

Whatever happened to Gee and Hauglid, apart from them growing increasingly bitter and angry?

I have come to know both rather well in the past five years or so. My experience is that neither "bitter" nor "angry" would be an apt description of either of them.

Of course, seeing as we don't really know your in real life identity, it is altogether possible that you know them better than I.
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Themis wrote:
Simon Belmont wrote:Actually, Simon, I just looked up your book. You have the name of my church wrong in the very title of the book. That, to me, is the first indicator of a strong bias that might distort your findings and presentation of those findings. I hope the inside of the book is better.


LOL, I see you are just trying to create your own bias to dismiss his book so you never have to read it.



Perhaps a picture book is called for.
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Will Schryver wrote:I think it has become quite apparent over the years that I don't lean on others.


No, that's not the case at all. The email to DCP that you posted is a very trenchant example of this fact. You *need* others. You desperately need them. Otherwise, why would it be "distressing" news that David Bokovoy (of all people! Lol!) was trying to undermine you? I could cite other things, such as the fact that Trevor's FAIR piece was passed to you. You *don't* operate alone. I'm sure you crave the notion of being a "lone wolf," but your fantasies don't fit the facts, unfortunately.


Whatever happened to Gee and Hauglid, apart from them growing increasingly bitter and angry?

I have come to know both rather well in the past five years or so. My experience is that neither "bitter" nor "angry" would be an apt description of either of them.

Of course, seeing as we don't really know your in real life identity, it is altogether possible that you know them better than I.


Indeed.
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Simon Southerton wrote:
Perhaps a picture book is called for.


LOL He did say in another thread he wanted to see what Lehi's DNA should look like.
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Mopologists only think they have dispensed with the DNA arguments. What they have done is redraw the boundaries of the discussion to make all relevant claims unfalsifiable.


LGT seems to have come well before DNA came onto the scene.
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