Possible Modern Source for the Book of Mormon

[_gramps]

From the link above, which should work:

"...It looks like “The First Book of Napoleon” (1809) influenced the creation of “The late war, between the United States and Great Britain, from June 1812, to February 1815 : written in the ancient historical style” (1816) by Gilbert J. Hunt, which was adapted for the use of schools in New York. Our preliminary analysis is showing that The late war likely inspired the creation of quite a few books between 1820-1830, significantly impacting these three books, among others:

1) The Book of Nullification (1830)
2) The Book of Mormon (1830)
3) Chronicles of Eri (1822)

[_Res Ipsa]

October surprise?

[_Runtu]

...works for me. Click it again and see if the link resolves

It works now, as gramps has fixed the link.

[_gramps]

Now follow this link to the presenter's web page and a explanation of his presentation.

http://askreality.com/hidden-in-plain-sight/#more-56

I got a 404.

Works for me. If you can't get there, just go to his blog: askreality.com.

[_Everybody Wang Chung]

Now follow this link to the presenter's web page and a explanation of his presentation.

http://askreality.com/hidden-in-plain-sight/#more-56

From the presentation:

"Using a size-independent matching scale, Hunt’s The late war transmitted textual influence to The Book of Nullification highest (0.37), followed by The Book of Mormon (0.24), and finally Chronicles of Eri (0.08). The influence from The First Book of Napoleon on Hunt’s The late war was 0.06, all of which were significantly higher than the baseline scores, indicating textual transmission, or common influence."

So, anything higher than a 0.06 is significantly higher than the baseline, indicating textual transmission or common influence, and the Book of Mormon scores a 0.24?

Is this methodology sound? Are the statistics sound? Could someone describe this to me in lay person's terms?

[_gramps]

...works for me. Click it again and see if the link resolves

It works now, as gramps has fixed the link.

Sorry about that. But, I didn't do anything to fix it. Not that I know of, at least. ;)

[_gramps]

Now follow this link to the presenter's web page and a explanation of his presentation.

http://askreality.com/hidden-in-plain-sight/#more-56

From the presentation:

"Using a size-independent matching scale, Hunt’s The late war transmitted textual influence to The Book of Nullification highest (0.37), followed by The Book of Mormon (0.24), and finally Chronicles of Eri (0.08). The influence from The First Book of Napoleon on Hunt’s The late war was 0.06, all of which were significantly higher than the baseline scores, indicating textual transmission, or common influence."

So, anything higher than a 0.06 is significantly higher than the baseline, indicating textual transmission or common influence, and the Book of Mormon scores a 0.24?

Is this methodology sound? Are the statistics sound? Could someone describe this to me in lay person's terms?

Not I, brother. But, I am sure there are people here who can help us out, as they awake from their slumbers.

[_Runtu]

Sorry about that. But, I didn't do anything to fix it. Not that I know of, at least. ;)

That's weird. When I first clicked it, it had "reality.com" inside [url][/url] tags. Either way, it works now. Thanks for the link!

[Guest]

Oh hey! I recognize this guy now. He has a super fascinating story on youtube about how he left the church after his neighbor failed to raise his brother from the dead despite Jesus personally telling his Mom it would happen. He later looked into it all trying to save his other brother from doubting. Very intelligent and well-spoken individual. He has a great video series on Youtube going over truth and bias and what not.

[_Arrakis]

Not I, brother. But, I am sure there are people here who can help us out, as they awake from their slumbers.

Count me among those requiring assistance.

This is cool:

Our main research consisted of comparing the Book of Mormon to the pre 1830′s “Big Data” set made generously available by Archive.org, Google.com and participating Universities worldwide. We’re still verifying the results and working on getting it peer reviewed, we encourage your involvement.