FARMs leaves spoiled produce on shelves to mislead members
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:06 pm
I'm always interested in MAD threads about Book of Mormon evidence, so inevitably I clicked on this thread this morning:
"Validity of the Book of Mormon"
http://www.mormonapologetics.org/index. ... opic=25767
In it, a poster named rick7475 copied a 1970 FARMS article that claims a connection between the writings on two ancient Mexican seals and the writing on the Anton manuscript.
This article was written before the "rosetta stone" event in Mesoamerican translations, which occurred in the early seventies. Prior to the actual decoding of the Maya writing, scholars made all sorts of erroneous assumptions about the Maya script.
Someone named "Carl Hugh Jones" (I have no idea who this is, or what his specialty was) supposedly demonstrated "that most of the Anthon transcript marks can be seen on these two artifacts." (artifacts from Mexico)
It is accepted by virtually all Mesoamerican scholars of any merit that there is absolutely no connection between ancient Mesoamerican writings and any Old World language.
Here's the article on FARMS, which bemoans the fact that Jone's work has gone neglected:
http://farms.BYU.edu/display.php?table= ... chor-12574
It's gone neglected because anyone with even modest background knowledge in ancient Mesoamerica knows that there is no dispute on this point - Mesoamerican scripts bear absolutely no relationship to any Old World Script, be it Egyptian or Hebrew.
And yet FARMS allows this clearly bad produce to stay on its shelves, and encourages naïve, uninformed posters like rick to believe that it is a reliable source of information.
This is one example of many of why I have no respect for FARMs apologia. Sincere people who are interested in the topic ought to be able to trust not to be deliberately misled by people they trust to tell them the truth. Yet, time after time, they are.
"Validity of the Book of Mormon"
http://www.mormonapologetics.org/index. ... opic=25767
In it, a poster named rick7475 copied a 1970 FARMS article that claims a connection between the writings on two ancient Mexican seals and the writing on the Anton manuscript.
This article was written before the "rosetta stone" event in Mesoamerican translations, which occurred in the early seventies. Prior to the actual decoding of the Maya writing, scholars made all sorts of erroneous assumptions about the Maya script.
Someone named "Carl Hugh Jones" (I have no idea who this is, or what his specialty was) supposedly demonstrated "that most of the Anthon transcript marks can be seen on these two artifacts." (artifacts from Mexico)
It is accepted by virtually all Mesoamerican scholars of any merit that there is absolutely no connection between ancient Mesoamerican writings and any Old World language.
Here's the article on FARMS, which bemoans the fact that Jone's work has gone neglected:
http://farms.BYU.edu/display.php?table= ... chor-12574
It's gone neglected because anyone with even modest background knowledge in ancient Mesoamerica knows that there is no dispute on this point - Mesoamerican scripts bear absolutely no relationship to any Old World Script, be it Egyptian or Hebrew.
And yet FARMS allows this clearly bad produce to stay on its shelves, and encourages naïve, uninformed posters like rick to believe that it is a reliable source of information.
This is one example of many of why I have no respect for FARMs apologia. Sincere people who are interested in the topic ought to be able to trust not to be deliberately misled by people they trust to tell them the truth. Yet, time after time, they are.