Then what ever 'god' this may be has his 'truth' wrong. To tell a story that never happened is fiction. The bom and joseph smith made extraordinary claims about the events here in the americas. Yet it lies about the presence of horses, elephants, chariots, advanced metallurgy, old world crops, silk, glass, among others that have been shown not to have been in existence anywhere in the new world during the bom period (500bc-400 ad). So is boils right down to is this 'god' telling the truth. Throw in the highly questionable 'translation' method, the abundance of parallels and other literary sources smith could have drawn upon to fabricate this story - the credibility becomes unsustainable at best.
And if it does matter somehow, I’m fairly certain they just uncovered a new viking site in the middle of Old Town Stockholm.
nando, nando, nando. Dude, you need to at least be in the ball park when you make these comparisons. Was there ever any doubt that vikings inhabited Sweden in the past? Incase you are slow of google, the answer is no, a lot is known about the vikings from all the STUFF they left behind.
In the sorry story of the bom - there is no shred of evidence, archaeological, sociological, paleontological, metallurgical, zoological, linguistically, genetically - you name it. Given the bom claim of a vast civilization in the millions upon millions from sea to sea, there should be some uncontrovertibly artifact or evidence.
Finally - the wore out absence of evidence . . . argument fails because there is an abundance of evidence that anything BUT a bom culture inhabited the Americas during the bom period.
Now now, those who want to believe the fairy tales of Joseph Smith don’t need evidence to substantiate what they already know is ficiton. The god of Mormonism was oncea man and had to gain the position of Mormon god, appointed by a council of gods. People that believe such stuff don’t expect there to be evidence of such fantasies. Polytheists can have poly universes, which in their fantasies overlap and separate, leaving behind just the imagined B of M brought forth by a peepstone sexual predator of married women con artist. People who choose to believe such stuff need no rational evidence of the fantasies and we should not expect such for fantasies. Would you expect evidence for the Lord of the Rings fantasies?