We like to throw rocks at the people who don't see the world in the way we do.

I don't know why.

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Describe what it went from and what it seems to be going to to the best of your ability.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, like you could say there is a world of difference between a Dan Peterson and a Spencer Flumman.

Like, personality wise approach.

Well, I feel like you've done this very thoroughly, but you know, more, okay.

The traditional apologists were much more literalistic in what they were trying to defend.

Like, the Book of Mormon is literally like historical, what it claims to be, that sort of a thing.

And for that reason, because they put it in an ancient setting, they have to be trained in ancient languages.

And as far as I'm concerned, as far as the traditional apologists go and their education,

I mean, these people are trained in places like, you know, Hebrew University

and they, you know, do work in Egypt and they also study in like European.

I mean, I feel like in a lot of ways they are much better trained as scholars.

They work in multiple languages.

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