DCP is lying again. From your link:drumdude wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 4:08 pmI find this hard to believe. Why?“DCP” wrote: 2CFraud: "Now you’re admitting where it came from and that you used it."
I've never used anything by Mr. L. E. Hills, nor read a line from him. And I really couldn't care less who first formulated a limited Tehuantepec model for the Book of Mormon. Couldn't care less.
2CFraud: "you know nothing about why L.E. Hills created the theory"
You're right. I don't. And I don't care.
2CFraud: "But you spent the majority of your adult life promoting it and ragging on your fellow church members who disagreed. You still are."
Actually, I've rarely written anything on the geography of the Book of Mormon. It's not among my principal pre-occupations, although I find it occasionally somewhat interesting. I certainly don't share your laser-like focus on it.
Because Thomas Murphy specifically called out Daniel Peterson and his fellow Mezoamerican theorists in this dialogue article which specifically mentions them building on the work of L. E. Hills.
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-cont ... 04_129.pdf
This article was published in 2003. DCP wants us to believe he never read a single line by someone this article claims was foundational to their central hypothesis about the Book of Mormon.
This is 100% the Mopologist game plan, and does DCP really expect anyone to believe he was ignorant of Sorenson’s ‘scholarship’ (Sorenson 1985 model) and direction within FARMS? The notion that DCP hadn’t read Hills’ works, or in collaboration with other Mopologists didn’t use Hills’ works to further their own aims is laughable.John L. Sorenson, emeritus professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University, has credited Louis E. Hills, writing between 1917 and 1924, with a series of innovative interpretations of the Book of Mormon, which would be- come increasingly common in the treatments of Book of Mormon geography. Among Hills's innovations were "the first regionally limited model" and a Mesoamerican setting, with the Isthmus of Tehunatepec as the narrow neck of land described in the Book of Mormon.
The methodology employed by Hills began with the presumption of the validity of the Book of Mormon's history, then reshaped indigenous and mestizo histories to fit the Mormon view of the past. By careful selection of facts from post-conquest narratives, removal of all contradictory elements as "cobwebs and dusts of fiction," and filling in blanks with the narrative of the Book of Mormon, Hills tautologically reshaped the ancient history of Mesoamerica to conform to his predetermined model of truth.
- Doc