The Mormon Apologetics and Discussion (MAD). It's new name is the Mormon Dialogue and Discussion (MDD, which is interestingly the same abbreviation for Major Depressive Disorder).
I wonder if the board went through the temple to get it's new name?
Oh my gosh...I looked at the first thread about the Hill Cumorah controversy. There are people pulling things out of their asses as "evidence" of one theory or the other. I just occured to me, grown adults REALLY believe this stuff and will defend it. Here is an expample:
"In my studies I have found that the hill in NY fits amazingly well. It was an area of last retreat. It was also an area that wasn't accessed very much in typical day to day operations in BoM times. It was an area of exceedingly great distance from the land of Bountiful and Zarahemla. In Nephite times it wasn't even discovered for hundreds of years. No 300 by 400 mile area is going to go unoticed for that long.
What many people do not know is that American antiquities researchers in the 1800's found the area of wetern NY to be the site of a great extermination of peoples- where an ancient civilization came to extinction by massive warfare. It was common in those early frontier days to plow up large masses of skeleton fragments many of which showed signs of warfare. Countless spearpoints and arrowheads were brought up from the earth. The massive scale upon which were found mounds and mounds of quickly deposited skeletins who had died in large battles. Many of the hundreds and hundreds of earthen defensive works were plowed away but many still exist.
We know through archeological excavations that the great lakes area was a place rich in ore and that the land was heavily mined thousands of years ago. The ore was worked and traded down the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and down into the Gulf of Mexico and central America. This was of course prime land for the Nephites to gather their people, have an unlimited supply of ore, massive water-way system for travel and trade."