From the link provided by thesnail.

I beg of you to announce that the tablets and monuments claimed to have been excavated are willful forgeries, remarkable only for their clumsy character and the great ignorance betrayed by the forger.

Morris Jastrow, 1892
                There is no reason why honest people should be deceived any longer as to the true character of these forgeries, or be misled by the fanciful interpretations of misguided enthusiasts.

Francis Kelsey, 1892

Then, in 1986, The Mystic Symbol: Mark of the Michigan Mound Builders appeared. Its author, Henriette Mertz, worked from a collection of relics she had assembled. She was convinced that they had been made by early Christians fleeing persecution and offered some preliminary translations of the tablets.



So what josepp is contending is that early Christians, left Palestine, crossed the Roman Empire, somehow learned ocean going sailing skills and acquired seaworthy vessels (which probably did not exist at the time), crossed the North Atlantic, made landfall somewhere between Labrador and Florida, hiked to what is now Michigan without leaving a persistent trace of their passage and without being slaughtered or absorbed by all of the intervening tribes and then had the wherewithall to develop a civilization based upon the current middle eastern technology of their day, that just (according to the Michigan Department of Natural resources) happened to use incorrect markings and machine sawed planks in the construction of the artifacts which could not be as old as claimed because the pottery had not been fired.

I don't agree with the name calling. But I believe that mocking these ideas are justified. After all, by first saying that things are too boring and presenting this horse shit to us for discussion, is josepp not mocking us? Or at least trying to?