Marcus wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:14 am
Thank you, gentlemen, for the salubrious pushback on my post...
I was about to add my thoughts. But, this sentence brought me up short. Maybe some do not realize the impact of such limiting language. But it does have an impact. An ice-cold, divisive impact.
At some point, one would think we could just address participants in
--and even readers of-- a discussion without language that acknowledges only half of them.
I hear this, but believe the intention was merely to acknowledge the few who pushed back on his message, each of whom to my knowledge are male. Unless I’ve missed something upthread.
Separately, I was hoping Marcus would weigh in because it amazes - blows the mind - that Intetpreter continues to support an apologetic in which Early Modern English stands as one of the two MOST convincing evidences for Book of Mormon historicity. This is easily seen in Rasmussen’s “Estimating the Evidence” work of half-humor, half-apologetic, pornography project. His essays are sprinkled with incorrectly applied math, and the stench of bad science remains on the site. It is ironically, one of the strongest evidences against the intellectual seriousness of Interpreter.
The reason I bring this up via Marcus is: apologetically speaking, Early Modern English objectively is stronger evidence of a 19th century creative effort than a pre-Christian ancient epoch. And, if the strongest evidence in favor of a mathematical development can be validly (and more simply) argued to prove the opposite conclusion, then in practice we would expect 100% of serious scholars to dismiss the project out of hand. Is there any reason to expect otherwise? This one point in Kyler’s misguided work is so clearly a case of motivated reasoning, there’s no point in engaging. It’s flat earther level of stupidity.
I’m convinced this is why Kyler refused an easy $10,000 when I offered it if he would subject his essays to a thorough review by a sitting BYU professor of stats. While BYU isn’t Stanford, my experience is that most of its professors in the hard sciences are actually quite serious scholars who really do give a damn about their academic reputations.