# 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:** 141
**Author:** ![Zedd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@Zedd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zedd)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mormons-and-their-reputed-lies/604525/141 "2011-12-15T02:16:21Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > 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. You are laboring under a number of false ideas. First, Lindsay’s website was the first I noticed being pro-LDS under the Google link I searched. I had read some of Lindsay’s work years ago, and though I am not a devotee, I certainly don’t think his apologetics is as weak as you make it out. Frankly, what I like most about his site is the way he mocks and ridicules in the most sublime fashion those who mock and ridicule him and his beliefs. I notice he also has made great pains to explain the work is _ **his** _, that it is not the work of a professional, and that any errors of content are his responsibility. He certainly does not give me the impression of giving definitive answers. Also, I did not give the impression that that particular page of his site was giving a ‘proof’ of Book of Mormon being in a specific location, but rather that there are legitimate scholars who believe the America’s have had contact other than Northern Europeans prior to CC. He even stated in his piece the asian connection. Finally, those who came in ‘600 bc’ were not ‘Jews’, the most part of them were of Joseph, not Judah. Do I detect a little antisemitism? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mormons-and-their-reputed-lies/604525)._