tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post314018774672139168..comments2023-11-02T07:25:45.884-05:00Comments on Mormanity - a blog for those interested in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Another Fun Statistical Squabble Over Book of Mormon OriginsJeff Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08776493593387402607noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-11271985470001547872013-11-15T04:24:30.339-06:002013-11-15T04:24:30.339-06:00Changed the link to the general page at Archive.or...Changed the link to the general page at Archive.org which has links to the PDF version, online reader (nice!), and the bad text version. Also Kindle. Jeff Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776493593387402607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-8674338755796378152013-11-12T07:24:57.213-06:002013-11-12T07:24:57.213-06:00I enjoyed the post.
I recently read, "Book...I enjoyed the post. <br /><br />I recently read, "Book of Mormon Authorship," and particularly enjoyed "Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? An Analysis of Wordprints" by Larsen and Rencher. Was their work ever published in a non-LDS journal?<br /><br />I have often wondered how to scientifically measure the probability of correctly guessing a workable route for Lehi's or the use of chiasmus. Has anyone looked at 19th century books about the Middle East to see if the authors knew something they shouldn't?Brooks M. Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17097849558228531431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-54668833953288301462013-11-11T09:53:27.020-06:002013-11-11T09:53:27.020-06:00Jeff, That text that you link to is full of OCR (...Jeff, That text that you link to is full of OCR (scanning) errors, making it hard to read. It was not manually corrected after the scan/OCR. <br /><br />If one clicks on "See other formats", they can then view actual scans or PDF files that are graphics, i.e., pictures of the pages, instead of error-riddled OCR'ed text.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-24472087582544785022013-11-10T21:30:25.515-06:002013-11-10T21:30:25.515-06:001898 a book called "Wreck of the Titan" ...1898 a book called "Wreck of the Titan" was published about an ocean liner hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean and sank. Fourteen years later the RMS Titantic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. Hhmmmm......Titan/Titantic, both in North Atlantic ocean, both hit an iceberg, both sank. So did the Captain of the RMS Titantic hit an iceberg on purpose? Parallels do not prove anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-41999851415167776362013-11-09T16:46:43.147-06:002013-11-09T16:46:43.147-06:00On 'curious workmanship', there's also...On 'curious workmanship', there's also this quote from Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis:<br /><br />"And therefore hath she bribed the Destinies<br />To cross the curious workmanship of nature"<br /><br />Mark SteeleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-84783057856272397472013-11-08T19:16:08.547-06:002013-11-08T19:16:08.547-06:00Is there any evidence, other than the similarities...Is there any evidence, other than the similarities with the BoM, that Walt Whitman read the Book of Mormon before writing Leaves of Grass?Bookslingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15077778974473538408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-81871379585288503912013-11-08T15:39:11.702-06:002013-11-08T15:39:11.702-06:00It may be fun to squabble over the statistical met...It may be fun to squabble over the statistical methods used to identify the book, but the fact is, when you read the thing, it is uncanny sometimes in its similarity to the Book of Mormon. Stannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-4962207330746842062013-11-08T12:34:21.493-06:002013-11-08T12:34:21.493-06:00I've seen the discussions on other boards abou...I've seen the discussions on other boards about this, and while it doesn't affect my own testimony, I can see how for some it will cause them to stumble. There are enough seemingly uncanny similarities to cause one who has not yet built a testimony to question. <br /><br />That being said...I LOVED the Walt Whitman piece, had me smiling the while time as so much of the language you wrote mirrored the "nail in the coffin" approach I'd seen on the discussion boards. Really great satire, and a good examp,e of just how difficult it can be to measure influence in the manner they are suggesting. dknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-78629501530451281042013-11-07T23:27:27.663-06:002013-11-07T23:27:27.663-06:00This gives the conversation much more justice than...This gives the conversation much more justice than interpreter...although I enjoyed their articles as well.<br /><br />http://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithpromotingrumor/2013/10/the-book-of-mormon-and-the-late-war-direct-literary-dependence/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-53209142044193862052013-11-07T21:12:04.994-06:002013-11-07T21:12:04.994-06:00How can you celebrate Christmas without hearing &q...How can you celebrate Christmas without hearing "Last Christmas I Gave You My Heart" at least 10 times a day like we do in the USA?C Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01178189190498225759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-39898883536125508612013-11-07T20:50:34.180-06:002013-11-07T20:50:34.180-06:00Reminds me of the quote, "He uses statistics ...Reminds me of the quote, "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination."<br /><br />If you devise a novel method of using statistics to reach a conclusion you have to first prove that your method works before you can use it to test a theory. You can't combine the test of a novel method with an unproven theory and then draw any conclusions from that. Doing so fundamentally undermines the scientific process.<br /><br />From what I have read they also did an analysis of <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> by Jane Austin and managed to find influences that no literary scholar had ever found before. If that is the case then this is the biggest break through in literary history. They should rush and publish before they get scooped (stated sarcastically). Or perhaps that proves that their method doesn't work.Quantumleap42https://www.blogger.com/profile/16711817313734546305noreply@blogger.com