Posted by:
Michaelm
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Date: April 25, 2011 07:53AM
This morning Mr. Ash proposes that the BofM is the evidence. It must be proof, because Joseph Smith could not have known what archaeology is finding.
Ash said this: "we find that the book paints a picture which is amazingly similar in many ways to the same picture painted by New World experts about the ancient cultures during Book of Mormon times."
I'm still waiting for iron swords, coins, horse bones, chariots, ... but Ash now claims that instead of evidence to support the BofM, it is the evidence!
Here are three sources from professionals who are speaking up about "archaeological fantasies". They help to bring sanity when reading apologist writings such as today's.
Three Basic Principles of Archaeological Research
http://www.hallofmaat.com/modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=5Irrationality and Popular Archaeology
http://sites.matrix.msu.edu/wp-content/readings/feder.pdfCrusading Against Straw Men: An Alternative Viewo of Alternative Archaeologies: Response to Holtorf
http://sites.matrix.msu.edu/wp-content/readings/Fagan_and_Feder.pdf