Last week, during my evening walk around the neighboorhood, I saw a fellow out by the streetlight, seaching intently for something.
When I asked, he said he'd dropped his car key as he left the house.
"Let me help," I said, "just where were you when you noticed it was gone?"
"Back there about 4 houses.", was the reply.
"Then why don't you look back THAT way?", says I.
He said, "Because the light is better here."
Hmm. Using your analogy, the claims about historical documents were dropped here, so I should be looking here to see if people have links to them.
I use google, but sometimes you have to get just the right words on a search to find something.
I have found lots of references to the age people married. I even found a chart that shows perfectly what I was discussing about statistics. In the chart, the average age for women to be married was 22, but a MAJORITY of the women got married before they were 20.
But the graph was on a blog which didn’t have citations to unbiased sources. The only other stuff I found were competing numbers from pro-LDS and anti-LDS web sites. I didn’t have time to poke through each one to find if someone had a good unbiased source reference.
The purpose of my disclaimer is not to provoke argument, but to clearly state that my post contains speculation, and that I have no evidence to refute the claims of the post I’m responding to. I think that is rare enough that some people don’t recognise it as such, and think it’s some sort of attack.
In the absense of verified facts, if you want to have an opinion, it must be based on whatever evidence you can find. Some people just state opinions as facts with no references. I am trying to be more informative.