As it happens, I am not a Mormon and I know virtually nothing about Joseph Smith. I shall simply class this whole golden plates business (about which I know nothing more than what you put in your comment) as “unknown, unclassified” until such time as I find out more. I would move it to neither the “natural historical causes” category nor the “divine causes” category until such time as I have sufficient evidence that suggests which category it should be in.
...you and I probably have different thresholds for “sufficient evidence”.
As it happens, I am not a Mormon and I know virtually nothing about Joseph Smith. I shall simply class this whole golden plates business (about which I know nothing more than what you put in your comment) as “unknown, unclassified” until such time as I find out more. I would move it to neither the “natural historical causes” category nor the “divine causes” category until such time as I have sufficient evidence that suggests which category it should be in.
...you and I probably have different thresholds for “sufficient evidence”.