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I've prepared an appendix that goes into detail on chiasms and whether or not they count as evidence. I'm especially proud of the last paragraph. --- One of the positive correspondences that Dale and Dale point to is the presence of chiasms in the Book of Mormon. This one warrants some special atten...

Thank you all again for the good feedback. I've prepared a new draft of the paper, and it's much shorter this time, but I think it gives better weight to what Dale and Dale get wrong. --- Mixing Math with Humanities and Getting It Wrong: A Critique of a Statistical Analysis of Positive and Negative ...

I will admit that I had fun going over the paper point by point, but it sounds like I could make a much better paper by attacking their approach to probability and only then going over individual points to see how they stack up. Now that I've had my fun, let me see if I can actually say something me...

Thanks for the feedback! I'll make sure to incorporate these into the next draft. I'll also try to explain more of why I gave a 1 to so many of the details, the short version being that they're just too vague to actually count for anything. As an aside, I'd love to eventually have this published in ...

The following is a rough draft of a paper that I am preparing to counter Bruce E. Dale and Brian Dale's paper titled Joseph Smith: The World's Greatest Guesser. I am looking for feedback on how to improve the piece for publication. I've posted it at https://lodobear.wordpress.com/2023/12/27/against-...