We are not required to prove that the Book of Mormon is true or is an authentic record through external evidences, though there are many, many. Nobody ever used iron in the new world. Nobody has ever found

pre-Columbian coinage ever if there were coins. They'd be chocolate beans. Why aren't chocolate beans mentioned in the Book of

More copper alloys like brass? In any form doesn't show up in Meso America until at the earliest

800 a. D. Gold doesn't show up and anyway until 7 or 800 a D you've got

crops mentioned in the Book of Mormon that never existed in pre-Columbian America.

All of these things would have produced pollen

if they've been grown by anybody.

A lot of this stuff is wind-blown and would fall onto ponds and lakes

and get enclosed in sediments.

Tremendous amounts of pollen work has been done.

It never has been the case, nor is it now

that the studies of the learned

will prove the g Mormon true or false.

Silk, nothing.

A seven day calendar was unknown.

They never had chariots.

They had helmets all right, but they weren't made out of brass that's for sure there's no

evidence for horses no evidence whatsoever for any kind of cattle pig zero not one pig

bone has ever shown up. Elephants, uh, there's nothing.

I've never seen anything there that would convince me

that these people have Middle Eastern DNA.

We can read 95% of what the Maya themselves wrote.

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