logjamislds wrote:No; you're still trying to weasel out of the challenge. I said an equivalent to the Book of Mormon; not a 3,000 word "story" which virtually anyone could write. That's less than 1/100th of the Book of Mormon. Anyone who has written a book, as I have, will tell you that keeping it up until completion is the hard part. I think you suffer from premature extrapolation. You owe me about 300,000 more words.
If virtually anyone could write it, then you could write it, too. You've got 2 hours. Get going.
But if I owe you something, that must mean that you are volunteering to be my Martin Harris and support me financially while I undertake this task. Are you willing to do that? How about this: to keep it simple, we'll go by U.S. per capita yearly income (you've allowed a year to write this book). In 2010, that was $39,945. Joseph Smith has someone paying his way while the Book of Mormon was written---and that's assuming without proof that he didn't actually have six years or more to work on it (from the time he started talking about plates).
To show that you're serious, give Dr. Shades, the moderator of the board, $39,945.00 to hold in escrow so that we're following the parameters Joseph Smith had, that being a patron to support him while he worked. Once I confirm that Dr. Shades has received these funds, I will start working. If I finish the book in time, I get the money. If not, you get it back. I'm not going to rely on promises; I want to see that you're serious. Put up or shut up.
However, I see that you are deliberately ignoring the translation of the sealed portion of the Book of Mormon by Christopher Nemelka. Do you think his translation is truly from God? If not, then you have to write a comparable translation of a missing ancient scripture, or concede that Christopher Nemelka is a prophet of God.
by the way: I'm actually offering you a chance for money and glory. If you could actually pull this off, Christian bookstores would be clamoring for your volume; you'd be invited on lucrative speaking tours. The anti-L.D.S. world would have, at last, the means to break that "keystone of our religion." This is a serious endeavor I'm pointing you towards; no 3,000 word essay is going to cover it. Come on, get cracking. You've wasted 4 days so far; about 361 left to go. Put up or shut up.
No, they wouldn't, because part of your challenge is that I have to have witnesses who swear to their dying day that what I wrote is true. Did you already forget the conditions of your challenge?
Also, creating a derivative work---even if witnesses attested to it---would not disprove the Book of Mormon. It is the lack of any relationship to the pre-Columbian Americas, linguistic problems, and the plagiarism of biblical verses that would not have been known to the Nephites that disprove the Book of Mormon.
You seem to have declined my Koran Challenge. That means that Islam is the one, true religion. Allahu Akbar!
Alternative counter-challenge: I concede the argument that I never made---that creating a book like the Book of Mormon, even with attesting witnesses, would not disprove the Book of Mormon. That being conceded, believers have had 182 years to find a Nephite artifact. Show me one. Put up or shut up.