FAIR
Book of Mormon animals
FAIR Latter-day Saints
A faker in 1829 would have said buffalo, or nothing. Joseph leaves two animals in transliteration and puts elephants on a Jaredite timeline that is earlier than the Nephite one. Mastodons and mammoths are American facts. Correlation with Ether’s dates is argued. Mocking ‘curelom’ as if it were a tell is backwards: unknown words are what translators leave when they do not have an English fit.
Sheum, neas, curelom, cumom. Forgers over-explain. Translators sometimes shrug and keep the word.
- Jaredite fauna is not Nephite fauna. Read the book you are criticizing.
- Job has behemoth. We do not throw out Job.
- Loan-shift and extinct megafauna are live options. Certainty is the critic’s hobby.