# Mormons and their \[reputed\] Lies **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 30, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mormons-and-their-reputed-lies/604525 "2011-11-30T02:30:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 139
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mormons-and-their-reputed-lies/604525/139 "2011-12-15T01:42:22Z")
> [@Zedd](#): > > Just in case the crackpot theory isn’t proven… > [Betty Meggers](http://www.si.edu/ofg/AwardLists/MIP/MIPAwd2005.htm), PhD, Columbia still teaching at the Smithsonian (as of 2005) > [Michael Coe](http://www.yale.edu/anthropology/anthropology/Michael_Coe.html), PhD, Harvard, prof emeritus at Yale. > Carroll L. Riley, PhD, New Mexico, Distinguished emeritus at Southern Illinois University > David Kelley, PhD, Harvard, Prof Emiritus Univ of Calgary, (also spoke highly of Sorenson’s works) > Svetla Balabanova, PhD Ulm, works at Institute of Forensic Medicine > Well, I got bored. Seems they are all crackpots. You really want to hash out Jeff Lindsay’s amateur apologetics? All the names on your list (except Balabanova) have written about possible _trans-Pacific_ pre-Columbian contact with Asia. Not Jews coming in 600 BC with their annoying younger brother. There is no evidence for the events of the Book of Mormon. None. A long list of professors doesn’t change that. Besides, if you followed current Mormon apologetics (not Lindsay’s stale GeoCities apologetics) you’d know that FARMS and FAIR now believe that the events of the Book of Mormon took place on an isolated area about 1 square mile in Mesoamerica and all the inhabitants were immediately absorbed into the other dominant Olmec and Mayan cultures. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mormons-and-their-reputed-lies/604525)._