I’ll give the Mormons this: It does seem like ancient North Americans looked very white. I remember thinking the reconstructed bust of one of the earliest North Americans looked awfully like Jean-Luc Picard. But then again, that was Canada, not the Olmecs.
Iron artifacts among the Olmecs? Yes, but the book of Mormon says STEEL.
And why would a modern author “loan shift” what a horse was?
>> The Book of Mormon has been around for 177 years. When it first came out there was no evidence of anything claimed in it. If it was faked, you would expect that as time went on it would become less and less credible, but the opposite has happened. <<
It has gotten less credible. The proliferation of millions invested in pseudo-science and odd apologetics doesn’t change that.
If I were to come up with a rationalization for how Mormonism could be the true Christian Church it would be this: that God wanted his people to depend so exclusively on Him, and not on their egos, he “confounded the wise” by making an absolutely nonsensical “history.”
LOL