DB:
In any case, I'll look forward to the full presentation of the case you describe. May the best ideas win.
I have long since concluded that the debate will most certainly outlive us. Same with the various debates swirling around the Book of Mormon. In fact, it almost seems to me--at times--as though the whole thing was meticulously set up to produce precisely the quasi-equilibrium between arguments pro and con that we see (well, I doubt
both regard it in those terms, but you get the idea); thereby placing the question of historicity/authenticity/divine origins/etc. in a purely metaphysical setting. Which, I suppose, is where it ought to remain.
OK, back to the freshly-turned soil I love so much ...