mabgarstin@watcgl.UUCP (MAB Garstin) (08/20/83)
There's a set slides (approx. 120) with an accompaning cassette tape available from the Mormon run book store chain "Desseret Book Store" by a man by the name of Jack West. The set of slides are called the Jack West slides. They were taken by Jack West back somewhere around 1940 or 1950 (judging from some of the cars in the shots). Now if you want archeological evidence for the Book of Mormon, particularly evidence that addresses MANY specific issuse in tBoM (I'm getting like net.movies.sw here) then see this set of slides, they really come up with some very difficult points to argue against in support of tBoM. I would love to go into some descriptions here but then after all these are slides and a picture is worth a thousand words ( 4K bytes ) and I don't think most of you would want to see that (times the 120 slides) come through your systems. Go see the slides. MAB P.S.-If you don't have a Desseret Book Store in your neighbourhood just call the local Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and they'll send out some local member or missionary with a set of the slides and will happily show them to you. Just make it clear that you only want to see the slides and not have any discussions (unless of course you would like to have some discussions with them).
russ@dadla-b.UUCP (08/23/83)
If John White doesn't object at least I will to the idea that Jack West can be trusted for archealogical support for the Book of Mormon. It is just that type of information written by the Farnsworth's, West's Chessman and others that has given archealogical support for the Book of Mormon little credibilty. There is serious work done by Mormon archealogist and anthropologist that is starting to make a case for the Book of Mormon lands. These include individuals like John L. Sorenson. Although Sorenson's basic theory has not been published yet, the general idea is presented in a recent book by David Palmer "In Search of Cumorah".