DarkHelmet wrote:I love fan fiction. It's like the Star Wars boys that come up with plausible theories to explain away George Lucas's plot holes. Tell us more about these surviving Jaredites.
Ahhhh, so you're one of the morons who took the simplistic view that Shiz and Coriantumr's elite bodyguards going at it to the end meant that everyone else in the nation was dead?
Do you also need to be told that when strangers offer you candy you shouldn't get in the van?
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
DarkHelmet wrote:I love fan fiction. It's like the Star Wars boys that come up with plausible theories to explain away George Lucas's plot holes. Tell us more about these surviving Jaredites.
Ahhhh, so you're one of the morons who took the simplistic view that Shiz and Coriantumr's elite bodyguards going at it to the end meant that everyone else in the nation was dead?
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Nehor, please provide the scripture(s) where it shows that it was their elite bodyguards.
'Church pictures are not always accurate' (The Nehor May 4th 2011)
Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.
DarkHelmet wrote:I love fan fiction. It's like the Star Wars boys that come up with plausible theories to explain away George Lucas's plot holes. Tell us more about these surviving Jaredites.
Ahhhh, so you're one of the morons who took the simplistic view that Shiz and Coriantumr's elite bodyguards going at it to the end meant that everyone else in the nation was dead?
Do you also need to be told that when strangers offer you candy you shouldn't get in the van?
I agree that the stories in the Book of Mormon are simplistic and dumb, and I like your version much better. In fact, a remake of the Book of Mormon by someone who knows how to write, and who has an understanding of real Native American history would be awesome. Remember when that guy tried to make a Book of Mormon movie and he stayed true to the book, and it was horrible. We need someone who is not afraid to take some artistic license to rewrite these stories.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
DarkHelmet wrote:We need someone who is not afraid to take some artistic license to rewrite these stories.
Such a re-interpretation would, if viewed by LDS in great numbers, lead to mass apostasy. Be afraid, be very afraid.
I'm also wondering about copyright laws. Since the Book of Mormon is nearly 1700 years old, is it out of copyright or is the copyright renewed with each revision?
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
DarkHelmet wrote: I'm also wondering about copyright laws. Since the Book of Mormon is nearly 1700 years old, is it out of copyright or is the copyright renewed with each revision?
You'd have to check in Canada because that's where the copyright was sold...oh...hang on....
'Church pictures are not always accurate' (The Nehor May 4th 2011)
Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, regardless of what is right.
Haplogroup X entered the Americas Sometime before 600 B.C.E.
Could you be more specific? How long before 600 BCE?
Haplogroup X entered the Americas Sometime between 16,000 and 8,000 B.C.E. The Following information is from the National Center for Biotechnology Information:
BACKGROUND: It is widely accepted that the ancestors of Native Americans arrived in the New World via Beringia approximately 10 to 30 thousand years ago (kya). However, the arrival time(s), number of expansion events, and migration routes into the Western Hemisphere remain controversial because linguistic, archaeological, and genetic evidence have not yet provided coherent answers. Notably, most of the genetic evidence has been acquired from the analysis of the common pan-American mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups. In this study, we have instead identified and analyzed mtDNAs belonging to two rare Native American haplogroups named D4h3 and X2a.
RESULTS: Phylogeographic analyses at the highest level of molecular resolution (69 entire mitochondrial genomes) reveal that two almost concomitant paths of migration from Beringia led to the Paleo-Indian dispersal approximately 15-17 kya. Haplogroup D4h3 spread into the Americas along the Pacific coast, whereas X2a entered through the ice-free corridor between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets. The examination of an additional 276 entire mtDNA sequences provides similar entry times for all common Native American haplogroups, thus indicating at least a dual origin for Paleo- Indians.
CONCLUSIONS: A dual origin for the first Americans is a striking novelty from the genetic point of view, and it makes plausible a scenario positing that within a rather short period of time, there may have been several entries into the Americas from a dynamically changing Beringian source. Moreover, this implies that most probably more than one language family was carried along with the Paleo-Indians.
I wasn't really trying to argue in favor for the Great Lakes Theory for the Book of Mormon. Rather, I was really trying to Point out that those who argue for the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Theory for the Book of Mormon, should Not use Haplogroup X to argue for the Historicity of the Book of Mormon when they believe in and also argue in favor for the Tehuantepec Theory for the Book of Mormon.
"And I've said it before, you want to know what Joseph Smith looked like in Nauvoo, just look at Trump." - Fence Sitter
jon wrote:Nehor, please provide the scripture(s) where it shows that it was their elite bodyguards.
The Book of Common Sense 3:41
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo