Too bad they don’t look at Book of Mormon Central (BOMC).
If you click on one of the articles in BOMC’s “archive” you will also get a “More like this” sidebar with suggestions for more reading. No matter what resource you select, you will be directed to articles that support the main objective of BOMC, as expressed by its owner, BMAF:
“Our goals are (1) to increase understanding of the Book of Mormon as an ancient Mesoamerican codex.”
IOW, the goal of BOMC is to convince members of the Church that Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery were ignorant speculators who misled the Church about the location of Cumorah in New York.
It’s not an easy task, this effort to undermine the credibility and reliability of Joseph and Oliver (and David Whitmer). Most LDS accept these men as reliable, credible, rational people who simply reported the facts about their experiences. But not BOMC.
To make the Mesoamerican setting work, BOMC and the rest of the citation cartel must frame these men as ignorant and confused so that they, the BOMC scholars, can come to the rescue with their more sophisticated education and explain that Joseph and Oliver and David (and Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, Joseph Fielding Smith, Marion G. Romney, Mark E. Peterson, etc.) were ignorant speculators who misled the Church.
BOMC is trying to convince members of the Church that every prophet and apostle of the latter-days, starting with Joseph Smith, who has discussed Cumorah in General Conference or other official avenues, has been an ignorant speculator who misled the Church.
This is why their “archive” contains only material that promotes the Mesoamerican theory.
You can search BOMC all you want and you will find no material about the New York Cumorah, apart from a single source, which is my first edition of the short Letter VII book. You can still see it here: https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/letter-vii-oliver-cowdery%E2%80%99s-message-world-about-hill-cumorah
I give BOMC credit for uploading that reference in the first place, and for not removing it. Yet.
However, I have ceased working with BOMC because they put up attack articles without even acknowledging that I’ve responded, let alone putting up my actual responses.
They continue to suppress ideas and facts that contradict their main goal of establishing the Mesoamerican setting.
IMO, they are doing tremendous harm to the Church and to the effort to sweep the Earth with the Book of Mormon.
And if the EU cared, they would no doubt fine BOMC for the same reason they fined Google.
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Here’s a fun example.
Look at this BYU Studies article on Zelph.
https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/zelph-story
It contains the old canard that Joseph Smith changed his mind over time regarding Book of Mormon geography, based on the false assumption that Joseph read the Stephens books and commented about them in the Times and Seasons. The “More like this” sidebar refers readers to this classic:
https://archive.bookofmormoncentral.org/content/what-significance-zelph-study-book-mormon-geography
The author here claims that the Zelph incident cannot “provide conclusive evidence for anything” because so many people recorded their subjective experiences. If we had only Wilford Woodruff’s account (as is the case for many important events in Church history), we would take it as the entire truth about the event. (That’s how we ended up with the false quotation in the Introduction to the Book of Mormon.)
But because others recorded the Zelph incident, giving greater context, we’re now supposed to think that Joseph’s revelation about Zelph is meaningless.
To make sure you get the message, BOMC guides readers to even more ridiculous articles in the “More like this” sidebar:
More like this
The Zelph Story
John Bernhisel’s Gift to a Prophet: Incidents of Travel in Central America and the Book of Mormon
KnoWhy #130- Why Did Mormon Give So Many Details About Geography? (Alma 22:32)
The Treason of the Geographers: Mythical “Mesoamerican” Conspiracy and the Book of Mormon
Review of Deciphering the Geography of the Book of Mormon and An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon
I’ve addressed these articles in detail, but BOMC won’t tell you that.
Plus, they omit from their “Archive” what I consider the best article about Zelph ever published by BYU-affiliated organizations:
http://emp.byui.edu/marrottr/341folder/zelph%20revisited%20cannon.html
Needless to say, BOMC will never publish anything on Zelph that supports a theory that contradicts their Mesomania. They want members of the Church (and investigators) to believe Joseph Smith was an ignorant speculator who misled the Church about the New York Cumorah and therefore expected scholars (i.e., BOMC) to determine where the Book of Mormon took place.
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When you realize what BOMC is doing, how shamelessly they are promoting their Mesomania dogma, it’s actually pretty funny.
Except it’s also tragic for those who want to know the truth.
Source: About Central America