So is it his PhD or that he taught people who are on ships that lends gravitas to what he wrote?
You don’t see any monomania in your hijacking an interesting thread to fulfill your anti-Mormon vendetta?
Who is Kent Poder that his opinion should count? What else has he written on?
Who is Joseph Smith that his opinion should count?
Who is Brigham Young that his opinion should count?
Who is Thomas Monson that his opinion should count?
Google is your friend. I was making an aside. While there is proof for Biblical archeology (both old and new testaments) there is still ZERO evidence for Mormon archeology. Deal with it.