Tag: Book of Mormon evidence
The Significance of Nahom: Just Three Letters?
When thoughtfully understood, the evidence for Book of Mormon plausibility and authenticity related to Nephi’s account of crossing the Arabian Peninsula are profound and impressive. The modern findings and insights…
Don’t Get Too Excited About the New DNA Evidence Linking Native Americans and the Middle East
Some Latter-day Saints might be getting overly excited about a valuable new finding regarding the DNA of Native Americans. For an overview, see “‘Great Surprise’—Native Americans Have West Eurasian Origins”…
Hebraic Language Influence in Ancient America?
I’ve been reading John Sorenson’s Mormon’s Codex, whose electronic version happily now includes the maps, added in an update a few days ago. It’s a monumental work with many treasures…
Weighing Mormonism: Thoughts for Mormon Doubters (and Readers of the New York Times)
The New York Times and Shaken Faith in Sweden The arguments that weigh against Mormonism and the LDS story of a divine Restoration came to the front page of the…
Arabia’s Hidden Valley: Guest Post by Warren Aston
ARABIA’S HIDDEN VALLEY A strictly scientific look at Khor Kharfot as a candidate for Nephi’s Bountiful Warren P. Aston Copyright 2013 Regular readers will be aware that most LDS researchers have…
Surprise Encounter in Australia: Meeting Warren Aston, Author of My Favorite LDS Book
Preparing my last post about an article by Warren Aston resulted in two things. One, I learned that Warren lives in Brisbane, Australia. Two, I wanted permission to use a…
Biodiversity at Khor Kharfot, a Leading Candidate for Ancient Bountiful in the Arabian Peninsula
I think the average LDS person still has little appreciation for recent discoveries in the Arabian Peninsula over the past couple of decades that provide interesting evidence for plausibility of…
Daniel Peterson on the Restoration and the Book of Mormon
While reviewing information related to Cornelis Van Dam’s outstanding book on the Urim and Thummin (he’s a non-LDS scholar whose scholarship regarding that ancient tool should be of special interest…
Looking my Christmas Gift Horse in the Mouth
About a week ago in the comments on my post about horses in the Book of Mormon which was inspired by my earlier review of the generally excellent book, An…
The Ojibway Metal Plate: An Intriguing Episode
Today I’m happy to share an article contributed by a Latter-day Saint in Wisconsin, Mark Treter. It relates to a common question about the Book of Mormon: Is there any…
