Hi Jeanie

Jeanie: It was right there in my Book of Mormon religion manual from when I went to college back in the early 80s. And just like it states in scripture, it was reformed because it was adjusted to their "manner of speaking."

But we have really good reason to believe that they didn’t’ speak any form of Egyptian, that’s the whole problem with this idea. It’s like me writing a really important book in Modern Greek. I don’t speak Greek, my friends don’t speak Greek (actually one does, maybe I should have said polish). Why would I choose a language that it’s improbable that I would speak and which no one around me speaks? Even if I had somehow learned Polish, why would I write in it, even if it was more efficient, if my audience could not read it? All the evidence suggests that Israelites of 600 BCE did not speak Egyptian, reformed or otherwise.

And, no, not enough room on the plates. They were already pretty hefty in the state they were found.

Surely god could afford the gold to make more, make an extra volume maybe. Isn’t that possible? So why the limit? It does not make logical sense.

The rest, R2, is just your viewpoint and nothing I can really do anything about. You are determined not to believe anything....

On the contrary I am determined to believe many things, in fact I already do, but I have very strict criteria on what they are. Demonstrable truth or at least strong rational grounds for accepting them are high on the list.

It is not just my opinion that pyramids are quite common for the really simple reason that with limited technology other shapes fall down. Pyramids are known from Egypt, North and South America, Mesopotamia, Sudan, Rome, Thanjavur and Europe. It is not just my opinion that the South American pyramids bear very little resemblance to the Egyptian ones, they have stairs up the outside and a temple on top and no burial chamber inside.

It is not just my opinion that there does not appear to be any documentary reason to believe that the peoples of the Americas are the one’s talked about in the Book of Mormon especially given that we have very strong archaeological evidence that they had already lived here for thousands of years by 600BCE.

No no hard feelings, I hope the same is true for you. Are you interested in looking into how we are so sure that the ancient people of America lived there long before the book of Mormon suggests? Are you interested in looking into how any of the physical evidence we have discussed is used scientifically to produce the picture we have of the earth’s history today. It’s not a lie or a fabrication it is the honest work of a great many very intelligent, well trained, dedicated and talented people over a long period of time. There is no mega conspiracy behind it the evidence I have presented here on the age of these people’s occupation of America is founded on very solid evidence. Are you interested in exploring what that evidence has to say and how these conclusions are reached? It will take some time and effort to learn the basics if how this science works but its fascinating IMHO.

All the best Jeanie.

Russell