I'm not alone in casting huge amounts of doubt on Angel Moroni directing Joseph Smith to a hill in Upstate New York in 1823 to find golden engraved plates that were translated using seer stones. It's a con. That area was rampant with religious nuts and extremists. Presidential assassin Charles J. Guiteau joined a cult in that area and he claimed God told him to kill Garfield.
You didn't answer my question.
If the Book of Mormon is a "con," how do you explain the evidence of its authenticity, such as the Hebraisms in the book, the discovery of the town of Nahom in Arabia (which was unknown in Joseph Smith's day), the discovery of an amazing candidate for the Land Bountiful in Yemen (which was unknown until the 1990s), the huge amounts of chiasmus in the book, the computer wordprint analyses that prove that many different authors wrote the book (just as the book claims), etc., etc.?
One can admire Lincoln and claim the South had a just cause.
LOL! Okay, partner, I'll tell you what: You go on any of the major online Civil War discussion forums and you find me such a person! Better yet, go find me a person who not only admires Lincoln but who defends and praises George McClellan but who also claims the South had a just cause! As usual, you have no clue what you are talking about.
By the way, I do not believe the South had just cause to secede. I used to argue this, but I changed my mind a few years ago. I still believe they had a constitutional and natural right to secede, but that they had no valid reason to secede.
Well, of course you believe it.
Well, yeah, I believe it because we now have released files that prove it. I'm guessing that, as with most other issues you discuss, you've done very little reading on this subject. Have you, by chance, heard of the Hoover-Ladd memos, where they discuss the fact that the chief of Army Counterintelligence worriedly had informed the FBI on December 10, three days after the attack, that Army intelligence knew at least two days before the attack that the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl Harbor? Mind you, these memos were never intended to see the light of day--they were not released until the 1990s and were apparently released due to a clerical error.
How about OP-20-G message 7001? Heard of that? It proves that the East Wind Rain message that signaled war was in fact intercepted, contrary to the Truman administration's later denials. The message was discovered by two eminent Pearl Harbor scholars, Roger Pineau and John Costello, both of whom had previously denied there was any evidence of advance knowledge.
How about the TESTM and COMSUM records that were finally pried loose by FOIA suits, which prove that Navy Intelligence was able to read quite a bit of the Japanese naval code, that they were tracking the Japanese task force heading toward Pearl Harbor, and that they knew that the task force was not in Japanese home waters but in the North Pacific?
Any clue about any of this stuff?
LOL. Academic ranking coming from you?
So obviously you have no idea about who Van Praag is and about his qualifications and standing in the field of acoustics and audio recording technology. If you ever gather up the integrity to read the other side, you would discover that, yes, he is the most qualified of the experts who have analyzed the tape.
That would be nice if the witnesses were braced against the opposite wall knowing the assassination was to occur. Then they could be prepared to record every nuance of the incident. But they were in a crowded poorly-lit hallway when something unexpected suddenly happened. I would bet most didn't turn to look towards RFK until 3 or 4 shots were fired and they initially just saw bodies intertwined in a struggle.
This is beyond lame. We're talking about their universal recollection of where RFK and Sirhan were located in relation to each other. Some of them were standing within a few feet of Bobby and/or Sirhan. Every single one of them independently recalled that Sirhan was never closer than 3-4 feet to RFK.
I associate quack and fraud more so with you.
Yet you're the one who has been repeatedly caught making utterly erroneous claims? Shall we revisit the howlers you penned about the backyard rifle photos and the single-bullet theory?
Anyway, so you just don't care to know that the ballistics evidence supports conspiracy. Nor do you care that the LAPD criminalist who made the bogus ballistics claims was later exposed as a charlatan. Who cares, right?
