Another Meso-American "hit" in the Book of Mormon.
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:42 pm
The Great Dr. Shades invited me to pull any posts from Planet MAD that interested me and plop them here for comment. I finally found on that is worthy of attention.
http://www.mormonapologetics.org/topic/ ... servation/
Now, I am not interested in trees and their relationship with us bipedal apes, I submit this post as a classic example of Bullet Proof Mopologetics. Apparently, anything that is mentioned in the Book of Mormon and is found in the real world, no matter how absurd, counts as a "hit." For example, Jaredites and Nephites had a relationship with their forests. The Maya had a relationship with their forest, ergo the Book of Mormon is true! How could the boy prophet had known? Forget the things that clearly contradict the story, like flocks, grains, coins, swords, horses, Christianity, language, or DNA; just focus on the good things.
Morons. There is no other word for them. Morons.
Or..
Really, my favorite goes like this:
There are horses in the Book of Mormon, there were no horses in the Americas before European intrusions. Joseph Smith, of course, knew this fact before he translated the Book of Mormon. Now he is clearly not a moron, so therefore this counts as a "hit" as well. No person faking a story would put such an obvious falsehood in their fraud! Therefore the Book of Mormon is true! There WERE horses in the Americas! Boo-ya!
Morons, all Morons.
Do you have a favorite? Am I being unfair?
http://www.mormonapologetics.org/topic/ ... servation/
According to Science Daily, 3000 years ago the Mayan were using forest conservation.
Forest Conservation among Maya
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ScienceDaily (July 23, 2009) — As published in the July issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, paleoethnobotanist David Lentz of the University of Cincinnati has concluded that not only did the Maya people practice forest management, but when they abandoned their forest conservation practices it was to the detriment of the entire Maya culture.
“From our research we have learned that the Maya were deliberately conserving forest resources,” says David Lentz, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Cincinnati and executive director of the Cincinnati Center for Field Studies. “Their deliberate conservation practices can be observed in the wood they used for construction and this observation is reinforced by the pollen record.”
This reminds me of three points made in the Book of Mormon. First among the Jaredites, where they set aside forest areas as hunting preserves. Second, when the Nephites moved into the land of Desolation and avoided using the sparse trees in the area so as to let them grow. Finally, the destruction of the Jaredites and Nephites were accompanied by "pollutions" according to Moroni, and the land of Desolation was left with few trees.
K'aya K'ama
Now, I am not interested in trees and their relationship with us bipedal apes, I submit this post as a classic example of Bullet Proof Mopologetics. Apparently, anything that is mentioned in the Book of Mormon and is found in the real world, no matter how absurd, counts as a "hit." For example, Jaredites and Nephites had a relationship with their forests. The Maya had a relationship with their forest, ergo the Book of Mormon is true! How could the boy prophet had known? Forget the things that clearly contradict the story, like flocks, grains, coins, swords, horses, Christianity, language, or DNA; just focus on the good things.
Morons. There is no other word for them. Morons.
Or..
Really, my favorite goes like this:
There are horses in the Book of Mormon, there were no horses in the Americas before European intrusions. Joseph Smith, of course, knew this fact before he translated the Book of Mormon. Now he is clearly not a moron, so therefore this counts as a "hit" as well. No person faking a story would put such an obvious falsehood in their fraud! Therefore the Book of Mormon is true! There WERE horses in the Americas! Boo-ya!
Morons, all Morons.
Do you have a favorite? Am I being unfair?