RE: Discussing Book of Mormon anachronisms

Nor do I, except that at least the comic book nerds know they’re talking about fiction. One side of this conversation clearly does not.

The same process is at work. The comic book nerds even have a term for it: retroactive continuity (or “retcon”). It’s surprisingly similar to what you’re seeing in this thread…

The process isn’t that complicated. All you do is start from the assumption that the base material is necessarily true, and then invent whatever scenario you need to account for it, no matter how improbable.

Assume that the BoM’s new world population really exist and that the claim they used horses, when all evidence says that the native American species of horse were extinct thousands of years before the BoM civilizations are supposed to have lived? Maybe they weren’t really “horses” in the sense of the Equus genus, but were some other species and they just called them “horses”. Or maybe a few horses really did survive the Pleistocene extinction event, and they really went extinct later.

It’s all retcon. No evidence needed, because as one of the other commenters said, “True believers don’t need a building or ruins to prove the truthfulness of the book.”

I’d put it differently… “true believers don’t care whether it’s true or not.”