"The author, evidently, mounts the fiery steed of his imagination and herds together every strange thing, every wonderful thing, every blood-curdling story, and every impossible thing he had ever heard of, or thought of, or dreamed of, and attempts, in this master effort, to combine them all in one huge miracle!"
M.T. Lamb, The Golden Bible (1887).
"The account of the convulsions of nature, which occurred in America at the time of Christ’s coming, would compel the geologist to re-examine his theories as to the formation of land and sea, and the astronomer to adjust his laws of the heavens to the wonderful three days of darkness."
F. S. Spalding, Joseph Smith, Jr., As A Translator (1912).
"Geology and the Book of Mormon are in irreconcilable"
T. C. Smith, The Book of Mormon and Mormonism (1912).
Wrong again. Those contrary rascals over at Book of Mormon Central provides an informative summary of recent research and perspectives.
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