You’re asking about reason, which is a more general category than empirical scientific evidence that the OP was about.
For me, empirical scientific evidence is VERY limited in what it can provide in regards to spiritual questions, and is therefore not a useful epistemological tool in this case (as I expressed in earlier this thread). I respect that other people hold different views.
In regards to reason in general, I do find the BoM to be intrinsically in harmony with logic and reason.
Without providing empirical scientific evidence, please diagnose either one of the following two examples of unreasonable Book of Mormon events.
first:
“2 Nephi 15 And I did teach my people to build buildings, and to work in all manner of wood, and of iron, and of copper, and of brass, and of steel, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious ores, which were
in great abundance.
16 And I, Nephi, did build a temple; and I did construct it after the manner of the temple of Solomon save it were not built of so many precious things; for they were
not to be found upon the land, wherefore, it could not be built like unto Solomon’s temple. But the manner of the construction was like unto the temple of Solomon; and the workmanship thereof was exceedingly fine.”
This is illogical.
second:
According to “Ether” in the Book of Mormon, Jared and his brother built some boats. Into these boats went their families and friends. All together they “did cross many waters,” carrying with them “seeds of every kind,” flocks (“male and female, of every kind”), “fowls of the air”, “swarms of bees,” and “fish of the waters.”
Four years later, they built some boats again, “after the manner of barges which ye have hitherto built”. They crossed the ocean in these boats. It took a year. The boats were “small, and they were light upon the water, even like unto the lightness of a fowl upon the water”, “exceeding tight,” “tight like unto a dish”, because they were going to be “many times buried in the depths of the sea” by “mountain waves” during storms.
Flocks and herds, and fodder for them, and seeds of every kind, swarms of bees and fish plus containers of water - some for drinking and some for keeping the fish in. Please try to imagine all those life forms - bees, fish, fodder, livestock - imagine all these things in a windowless craft, tossed now this side up now that side up, driven by winds, mountainous waves. Bees, fish, eggs, water, humans, babies, fodder, waste matter flying past your head everywhere, sometimes to one side of the ship, sometimes to the other, no permanent floor, no permanent ceiling, air taken in only when someone could figure out which hole was up and which hole was down (“Behold, thou shalt make a hole in the top, and also in the bottom; and when thou shalt suffer for air thou shalt unstop the hole and receive air. And if it be so that the water come in upon thee, behold, ye shall stop the hole, that ye may not perish in the flood.”).
Traveling like this - shaken up and down, rightside up today, upside down tomorrow, water coming in through one hole, gasping for air till the other hole is opened, dashed and thoroughly shaken about like this - for an entire year. *And surviving!!! *Does that sound like a reasonable scenario to you?
I’ve asked myself: How much drinking water was needed, and was there room for it? How was the inside kept clean of waste? When water rushed in because the wrong hole was unplugged, how was the excess salt water removed? When the ship tossed, how were people able to avoid breaking their bones as they collided into one another? How were the swarms of bees kept calm, or were they? what kept the fish from falling out of their fish-tanks when the boat capsized? Where did the birds roost? How did they keep the birds’ eggs from breaking during the flips? What did the inside of the boat smell like? This story is unreasonable.
