What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better [machinery], not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use, men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.
E.M. Bounds

Mormonism: Archeological Evidence

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Mormonism: Archeological Evidence

  • Book of Mormon claims:
    • great number of people in these two civilizations
    • 38 cities catalogued
    • presence of Old World domestic animals and grains
    • use of iron
  • Archeologists repudiate claims:
    • no evidence of wheat, oats, barley, rice, cattle, pigs, chickens horses, etc. until 1492
    • Iron, steel, glass, silk did not appear in New World before 1492
    • Some metallurgy, like gold, silver, copper was present before 1492, but not iron.
    • No similarities between Egyptian and Mexican artifacts have ever been found.
    • No major ruins have been found
    • American Indian is genotypically and phenotypically similar to Mongoloid not Caucasoid (John Hopkins University study)

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