PAUL - I'll keep this short for the sake of simplicity. Mormon history says that a great civilisation existed in the Americas from about 600BC to 400AD (1000 long years). This civilisation built many temples and cities, they had bronze, steel, chariots, spears, gold and silver coins, many types of domesticated animals. They spread to the north, south, east and west. A tremendous amout of written records were kept according to the BOM. Two million people were killed at the Hill of Comorah in the final battle. Why is there absolutely no archaeological record of any of this - plenty of evidence to prove the Mayans existed. There is nothing to anywhere to indicate that any of these sort of things existed in America until European settlement after Colombus. How can a 1000 years of such an totally advanced civilisation leave no trace at all of their existance over a 1000 years?

JOEL - Perhaps we're looking in the wrong places for it. You're right, not much has been found yet, but the problem is not as absoulte as you are making it out to be. Actually, I have already addressed most of these items elsewhere on my site.
Please check out this page to get my opinion on all this.

Generally speaking I think it is also important to remember that a religion is based on faith and not on scientific evidence and archaeological discoveries. There are also many things about the Bible that have been "proven" to be false based on the evidence (or lack of it) according to many scientists, yet people still have faith in the truths within it. The few Bible-related things that have been found in the world are because many people have been searching for a couple thousand years for them, while very few have been searching specifically for Book of Mormon evidence for the last 170 years.
God will always require faith from His children to believe in things that cannot always be scientifically proven. It's His way of testing us for our suitability for eternal life with Him and He is not going to allow it to happen in any other way. If there were absolute proof there would be no need for faith; if we have no faith we have no possibility for eternal life with God.

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