{"id":274,"date":"2012-10-22T12:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=274"},"modified":"2012-10-22T12:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:07:23","slug":"whats-a-mormon-archaeologist-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2012\/10\/22\/whats-a-mormon-archaeologist-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s a Mormon archaeologist to do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, my brother-in-law spoke on an area of some interest to him professionally and to me avocationally: Mormon archaeology. Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyURL.com\/ChasUCO\">YouTube playlist<\/A>, which those putzes over at the Godcast studios finally got around to posting yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I think he did a bang-up job showing how superficially similar structures and functionally similar artefacts from Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica are actually quite different to the trained eye.<\/p>\n<p>A few questions spring to mind:<br \/>\n1) What sort of finds would strongly confirm the BoM&#8217;s &#8220;Out of Israel&#8221; approach to originally populating the Americas?<br \/>\n2) What do Mormon apologists say when faced with the appalling lack of such findings?<br \/>\n3) How on Earth do the Mormon archaeologists manage to compartmentalise so well that they can sound just like the real deal when they write up their results?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, my brother-in-law spoke on an area of some interest to him professionally and to me avocationally: Mormon archaeology.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}