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It isn't that Jackson fails to present some logic -- he does. His article raises intriguing questions. For instance, why DID Joseph change "unicorns" in one place (consistent with Clarke), but not in other places where "unicorn" or "unicorns" appears? Jackson did the research to show that yes, Josep...

With only a few subject-noun changes, Kent Jackson's article could be re purposed to explain beautifully and forcefully why the Book of Mormon is not a historical text.

So the apologists are attacking Wayment’s scholarship in order to take away any potential for a slam dunk? This is an odd strategy indeed. If parallels don’t work then I’m afraid the entirety of the Interpreter’s corpus is null and void. I will have to go see how it is that Wayment’s 100s of instanc...

As if on cue, Res Ipsa:

“Two women file sexual abuse complaints against Nikola founder Trevor Milton”

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/two-wom ... eExtension

An Elizabeth Holmes story, in the hydrogen fuel cell dream. I think there is a real chance Trevor may lose everything once the civil and criminal suits are finished.

And then the observation which takes my breath away: "Although he described the Book of Mormon as more correct than any other book and as 'the keystone of our religion,' there is little evidence that he ever took time to study its contents as he did the Bible's." (Barlow, 44) That IS interesting ev...

“Most of those who have seriously read this book give it a 5 star review.”

It certainly sets up a tricky moral hazard. Like being an in house attorney, defending the hand that feeds. But without the hassle and restrictions of a state bar association.

I have just a few exposures to Smoot through his online presentations and comments. He strikes me as the sort of person who at one point may have looked impressive on paper, but to an interviewer would have been immediately detected as interpersonally disastrous. He has shown himself quick to insult...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mormon-fair-cast/id397315546?i=1000491724650 Starting at minute 13:00 Neal shares with Seariac about his start as a full time employee at BOMC. It’s sort of a nice kismet story about hanging around the rim long enough to get a lucky shot. And then strangely he a...