1388: Recreating the Book of Mormon Plates with Trent Told

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this short Mormon Stories Episode I sat down with Trent Told, who created a prototype of Joseph Smith’s Book of Mormon Plates. Based on Dan Vogel’s theories surrounding the “Tin Plates” and the Book of Mormon, Trent created a proof of concept model of the Book of Mormon made out of tin, in order to help demonstrate the physical size and weight of the plates. This model is also intended to help illustrate complexity and improbability that Joesph Smith could have possessed and handled actual Gold Plates (let alone run with them).

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John Dillin. It is January 24th
0:06.5	2021 and we have a special little short very interesting Mormon Stories podcast episode for you today. Today I have in studio
0:15.6	Gentlemen named Trent told a Trent. Welcome to Mormon Stories podcast. Nice to meet you. Good to be here
0:22.0	And we're gonna do something really simple
0:24.0	Once upon a time noted author and historian and former multiple time guest on Mormon Stories podcast and Vogel
0:33.2	put out a proof of concept on
0:37.0	Tin plates and the Book of Mormon
0:39.2	He sort of put a theory together about tin plates and the Book of Mormon that he thought would be really interesting and
0:45.6	This gentleman that I have today Mormon Stories podcast studios Trent told actually
0:50.0	actually
0:52.0	executed and completed the proof of concept actually generating
0:57.8	Tin plates for the Book of Mormon or as a prototype or as a proof of concept for the Book of Mormon again made out of tin instead of being made out of gold
1:07.0	just to kind of help illustrate the complexity and the weight and
1:12.3	Honestly the credibility of the probability that Joseph in fact could have possessed actual gold plates and
1:19.2	And how workable and realistic that theory actually might be so Trent has in studio these tin plates that he created and
1:28.6	Some of the tools that he used to create them and we're gonna be talking about you know a tiny bit about his background why he created these plates
1:37.1	What the whole proof of concept is about
1:39.6	How he did it and then what in his view it all means? We're gonna try and do this in like 30 to 45 minutes
1:44.9	All right, so Trent told welcome to Mormon Stories podcast. Thank you
1:49.4	All right, so go ahead and begin
1:52.2	Why you know what's what a little bit about your background and why you did this project?
1:56.8	I've been a Mormon my life and everything else
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