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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I guess if I were to summarize what I'm reading as a group of arguments,

it's that this author seems to be stating that if these light-art images find stone quarries,

animal pens, irrigation systems, public works, military fortresses,

if the Book of Mormon predicts, you know, describes those things in 1830

and if light-art images in the past 10 or 15 years show that those elements of a civilization existed,

that in some ways that demonstrates the historicity of the Book of Mormon.

I think that's, you know...

But I was a valid statement, but in the last 20, 30, 40 years,

ever since the discovery of the famous Bonon Poc murals with their tremendous amounts of battles and wars going on there,

people have known that this old, faithful idea about the Maya was malarkey and baloney

and should be described nobody ever thought that they were anything but war like ever since then.

And if Joseph Smith, you know, really wanted something comparable to in the New World,

...