Off Topic Comments from Book of Mormon Authorship Thread

[_ByronMarchant]

Manfredjinsinjin wrote:

"Hi Byron!
"Yes, I sometimes find FARMS reliable. If you think my confidence is misplaced, especially with respect to the FARMS propaganda I linked to in my post, I would be very interested in seeing your reasons why, and, perhaps, in even discussing them with you."

And If I were to engage you in such a reasoned discussion, with whom (the name your parents gave to you) would I be communicating?

Byron

[_Daniel Peterson]

Would you care to discuss the Jockers study?

Isn't that what he was doing?

[_harmony]

I mean, it doesn’t even appear that they’re aware of the testing performed by the FARMS group, which has been around since 1997 and which totally refutes everything that they’re saying here. And now I’m seriously wondering just how thoroughly they really researched all relevant data in the field of stylometry before they jumped into their study...

You might want to go back and read the FARMS mission statement. It will give you some insight into the validity of any study they perform on the Book of Mormon.

[_Daniel Peterson]

I mean, it doesn’t even appear that they’re aware of the testing performed by the FARMS group, which has been around since 1997 and which totally refutes everything that they’re saying here. And now I’m seriously wondering just how thoroughly they really researched all relevant data in the field of stylometry before they jumped into their study...

You might want to go back and read the FARMS mission statement. It will give you some insight into the validity of any study they perform on the Book of Mormon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well

The FARMS mission statement is probably the only thing that harmony has actually read . . . er, on this subject, and she feels that it permits her to dispense with actually engaging the relevant data and analysis.

[_marg]

Later I will go through this thread and clean it up, including this post, I'll wait first until the digression dies down.

[_ByronMarchant]

Daniel Peterson wrote:

"The FARMS mission statement is probably the only thing that harmony has actually read . . . er, on this subject, and she feels that it permits her to dispense with actually engaging the relevant data and analysis."

Is this:

http://farms.BYU.edu/about/missionstatement.php

what you people are referring to?

[_harmony]

Daniel Peterson wrote:

"The FARMS mission statement is probably the only thing that harmony has actually read . . . er, on this subject, and she feels that it permits her to dispense with actually engaging the relevant data and analysis."

Is this:

http://farms.BYU.edu/about/missionstatement.php

what you people are referring to?

Yes. I started a new thread about it, so we don't clutter this one any further. marg can do a clean sweep and we can still carry on our bickering on the other thread.

marg, take this one too.

[_Daniel Peterson]

But you shouldn't take this one:

Would you care to discuss the Jockers study?

Isn't that what he was doing?

[_marg]

So I moved some posts posted today, from pinned Book of Mormon Authorship thread. If anyone feels what they had to say should be back in the pinned thread they can repost.

[_Jersey Girl]

So I moved some posts posted today, from pinned Book of Mormon Authorship thread. If anyone feels what they had to say should be back in the pinned thread they can repost.

Thank you for cleaning up the thread. Much appreciated!