Mormons, How's the gold and silver growing going? More prophetic wisdom from B. Young...?

Question

Brigham Young said, "Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing..."

Author: Brigham Young
Source: Journal Of Discourses
Volume: 1
Page: 219

Perhaps Joseph Smith grew the plates, just really slowly...

Answer 1

What's your point? He had his opinions. He never said anything about this coming from God, or that God said we should believe it or be damned or anything.

Answer 2

Does it seem to anyone else that Joseph and Brigham were sort a stupid about many things. They just had a lot of charisma and smarter men that helped guide them. Joseph- gold digging, glass looking, reformed Egyptian, Kirtland bank, united order, polygamy, inhabited moon, Kolob etc. Brigham- Adam=God, polygamy, Iron mission, growing metals, mountain Meadows massacre and cover up, inhabitants on the sun. God has a sick sense of humor.

Answer 3

Interesting - I look at your profile, and from that I can tell that you are a Christian, and most likely a young earth creationist.

And, you sit here and mock others for their beleifs? Not very Christian of you, is it?? You picked as a BEst Answer on one of your questions a person who had 13 thumbs down - but his response was exactly what you wanted to hear, so you rewarded that person...thus demonstrating that you need validation of your silly beleifs...

With a slight bit of interpretation, B Young was actually right - how else do you think that gold and silver veins "grow" in the earth??

Answer 4

Your accusation already more illogical than your question.
If Joseph Smith could grow gold, he would be rich, he could sell the gold, instead of buidling a church that is hated by the main stream Christians.


next time make up something more logical, maybe we have a better laugh.

Answer 5

How does the gold grow? Very well! Following is an article summarizing recent scientific findings

"The largest single lump of gold ever discovered on our planet was found in Australia. It was the Holterman Nugget, and it was found in Hill End in NSW on 19 October, 1872. The whole nugget weighed 235.1 kg, and contained 93.3 kg of pure gold. (Strictly speaking, the Holterman Nugget was not really a nugget, but a mass of gold found in a reef.)

Many of the world s large gold nuggets have come out of Australia - the Hand of Faith (27.2 kg), the Welcome Stranger (73.4 kg), and the Welcome (69. 9 kg). Ever since I was a kid, one thing about nuggets has always struck me as odd - they look so organic , like a lumpy mis-shapen potato. Well, my gut feeling might have been right. According to some recent research, gold nuggets might have been assembled by living creatures! ...

Now some scientists believe that bacteria might have actually laid down some of the gold deposits in the first place. After all, when a bacteria called Pedomicrobium lives in water rich in dissolved minerals, it will actually build up layers of iron or manganese oxide around itself - like a shell. Scientists from Macquarie University have suggested that many gold deposits in Venezuala might have been laid down by bacteria. And just recently, John R. Watterson of the US Geological Survey, claims to have found proof in Alaska.

Now when most people find a lump of gold in their gold-panning dish, they quickly turn it into cold hard cash - and have a party. But when John R. Watterson got his gold, he looked at it with a scanning electron microscope. To his surprise, most of the tiny particles of gold that he had collected from nine Alaskan rivers were not solid little lumps. Instead, they looked like gold-plated bacteria.

What he saw was a lacy pattern of tiny cylinders joined by thin rods. The cylinders were the same size as the Pedomicrobium bacteria.

Now gold stops most bacteria dead in their tracks - with suffocation. It blocks up the tiny holes in the cell walls through which food comes in and wastes go out. But Pedomicrobium, has an unusual way of reproduction. Most bacteria make babies just by splitting into two separate cells. But Pedomicrobium reproduces by budding. It stretches out a narrow stalk which rises above the gilded cage closing around the parent bacteria. This narrow tube then opens up (at the end) to make a new bacteria. So new baby bacteria are continually being born just on the outside of an expanding ball of golden death. It s a slow process - it takes over a year to grow a gold grain roughly the thickness of a human hair (about 0.1 mm). It would take a long time to grow a 70 kg nugget. (Maybe we could speed the process up, by genetically engineering the Pedomicrobium bacteria.)

There are similar lacy patterns in 2.8 billion-year-old South African gold, and in 220 million-year-old Chinese gold. Of course, when you melt the gold in a furnace, the carbon from the bacteria just vaporises into carbon dioxide, leaving behind pure gold.

Answer 6

Yeah, it holds about as much ground as scientology. "I found these gold plates in upstate New York but I lost them, but this is what they said word for word, so believe me". If I still have my movie ticket from Star Wars, ole boy should be able to hang on to huge GOLD plates.

Answer 7

As to those "Gold Plates", apparently they disappear like the hair on top of your head.

Answer 8

Perhaps he was given a revelation concerning the creation of heavier metallic structures, but confused when god shewed unto him how a freaking star undergoes fusion.

Or he was just wingin' it, like the people on the sun and moon.

Welcome back imasis

Answer 9

What do you call it when things that are not gold and silver compound with heat and become gold and silver? Is it possible he meant that?

Answer 10

Sounds like more pie-in-the-sky Star Trek pseudo-science.

"Growing" gold... Hah!

Answer 11

Didn't Brigham Young have a receding hairline?