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Joseph Smith and the Concept of Multiple Inhabited Worlds: Just Simple Borrowing from Others?
Neighbors in the Tarantula Nebula, just 160,000 light years away. Latter-day Saints with an interest in science are often intrigued by the coherent network of ideas Joseph Smith’s revelations provide…
New Light on Mesoamerica from LiDAR, Something Book of Mormon Fans Are Likely to Like
Thanks to Kirk Magleby for sharing some exciting implications from an advanced exploration technique, LiDAR, that is being used to make new archaeological finds in Mesoamerica which many LDS people…
Exposed: Ironic Inconsistency in the Book of Mormon
Given all the complexities of preparing the Book of Mormon — multiple ancient sources combined, redacted, then translated into English that is verbally dictated and written by a scribe, then…
The Explanatory Power of an Ancient Setting for the Book of Abraham: One Example
Critics of LDS scriptures sometimes exert great efforts to find parallels to Joseph’s environment and modern sources of knowledge to account for our sacred texts. Such parallels can be interesting,…
Henry Eyring’s Eye-Opening Experience with Councils
Yesterday in Hong Kong I was fortunate to be part of a meeting where Elder Randy D. Funk of the Seventy and Benjamin Tai, an Area Seventy from Hong Kong,…
Astonishing Correlations: The Book of Moses and Ancient Texts
Jeffrey Bradshaw’s latest publication, “Could Joseph Smith Have Drawn On Ancient Manuscripts When He Translated the Story of Enoch?” at The Interpreter, offers some simply astonishing evidence for the ancient…
Science: “How a Mormon Lawyer Transformed Mesoamerican Archaeology—and Ended Up Losing His Faith”
Lizzie Wade, an excellent science writer with impressive experience and credentials (see LizzieWade.com), just published a touching and beautifully written story about Thomas Ferguson in the illustrious journal Science. Her…
Remembering Thomas S. Monson: The Painful Obituary from the New York Times
Scott Gordon at FairMormon.org offers a firm but gentle rebuke to the New York Times for their embarrassing and painful obituary of one of the world’s best men, Thomas S….
A Surprise in Alma 7:11
Thomas Wayment’s “The Hebrew Text of Alma 7:11” in Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14/1 (2005) makes a surprising observation (the link is to the PDF file — there…
The Valley of Alma and Another Candidate for Janus Parallelism in the Book of Mormon
In my last post, I offered an update to my article at the Interpreter on Janus parallelism in the Book of Mormon, suggesting that there were additional reasons to suspect…
