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“People have readily assumed the Book of Mormon was within Joseph Smith’s writing ability, when it’s actually questionable how well it was within his reading ability." - Curiously Unique: JS as Author of the Book of Mormon by Brian C. Hales
“People have readily assumed the Book of Mormon was within Joseph Smith’s writing ability, when it’s actually questionable how well it was within his reading ability." - Curiously Unique: JS as Author of the Book of Mormon by Brian C. Hales
During the initial stage of translation of the Book of Mormon in the winter of 1827–1828, Joseph Smith’s wife Emma would often write for him as he translated. Later in life, on multiple occasions, Emma would tell the story of the time Joseph was startled by the mention of walls surrounding Jerusalem...
“Now when I had spoken these words … they did follow me up until we came without the walls of Jerusalem” - 1 Nephi 4:4
“Now when I had spoken these words … they did follow me up until we came without the walls of Jerusalem” - 1 Nephi 4:4
Edmund C. Briggs reported the most dramatic version of the story, as he heard it from Emma in 1856.
[O]ne time while he was translating he stopped suddenly, pale as a sheet, and said, “Emma, did Jerusalem have walls around it?” When I answered “Yes,” he replied “Oh! I was afraid I had been deceived.” He had such limited knowledge of history at that time that he did not even know that Jerusalem was surrounded by walls.
David Whitmer, too, later recalled in 1885 “that at the time [of translation] Smith did not even know that Jerusalem was a walled city.”
Daniel C. Peterson, points to similar evidence from the translation period further suggests: Joseph himself was sometimes surprised by the content of the book. “It seems to have been a text that was new and strange to him,” Peterson remarked. The text was “something external to himself,” and “there were parts of the text that he did not understand.”
Jordan Peterson says ChatGPT can write his papers... but,
ChatGPT declined to write Book of Mormon: https://youtu.be/HUILQTabH_o
Original is at...
@30 min... begins conversation on 1700's English translation, "adieu" is at ~37 min...
@16 min... WRONG, we DO have examples of single character = sentence/paragraph (Hebrew)
Christianity STARTED with Adam
Christianity STARTED with Adam
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare (or the Bible) - Consider the probability of typing the word banana on a typewriter with 50 keys. Suppose that the keys are pressed randomly and independently, meaning that each key has an equal chance of being pressed regardless of what keys had been pressed previously. The chance that the first letter typed is 'b' is 1/50, and the chance that the second letter typed is 'a' is also 1/50, and so on. Therefore, the probability of the first six letters spelling banana is
(1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) × (1/50) = (1/50)6 = 1/15,625,000,000.
< Less than one in 15 billion, ...but not zero.
As n grows, Xn gets smaller. For n = 1 million, Xn is roughly 0.9999, but for n = 10 billion Xn is roughly 0.53 and for n = 100 billion it is roughly 0.0017. As n approaches infinity, the probability Xn approaches zero; that is, by making n large enough, Xn can be made as small as is desired,[3] and the chance of typing banana approaches 100% - However, for physically meaningful numbers of monkeys typing for physically meaningful lengths of time the results are reversed. If there were as many monkeys as there are atoms in the observable universe typing extremely fast for trillions of times the life of the universe, the probability of the monkeys replicating even a single page of Shakespeare is unfathomably small
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