[Zakeet]

Thanks for the laugh ... by recalling the story of the Jaredite migration ... one of the most ridiculous tales in the Book of Mormon ... which is saying a lot.

For the benefit of the uninitiated, the Jaredites were supposedly a group of Semitic people who traveled to the Americas from Babylon around the time of construction of that city's Tower of Babel. They made the journey in submarine barges that were designed by a rather stupid Mormon god.

Dr. Kent Ponder, an engineering professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, describes some of the critical scriptural passages and has a lot of fun analyzing them HERE.

[Domangart]

The DNA is a real problem for that whopper.

[1010RD]

I searched around to see if he’d done anything on Noah’s Ark which was built in the same way as the Jaredite’s ships, but he didn’t.

Here’s a link to the atheist page on which his analysis is listed: http://packham.n4m.org/

He rips into Jesus and the Bible pretty hard as well.

http://packham.n4m.org/#XNITY

http://packham.n4m.org/bible.htm

http://packham.n4m.org/atheist5.htm

http://packham.n4m.org/evidence.htm

He also has a rather interesting discussion as to whether Mormon’s are Christian: http://packham.n4m.org/lds-xian.htm

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***one of the most ridiculous tales in the Book of Mormon***

Perhaps Joseph Smith made the story more and more ridiculous just to see how gullible his followers really were.

[reaganaut]

Oh, thanks for the link on Jaredite ships!