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I imagine you will have to outline what you take to be "Kolob cosmology" and to what extent you expect Mormons are to take it literally. I expect he does not think Book of Abraham astrology/astronomy is to be taken as scientifically accurate. He will probably be more interested in the way...

And it's not because of any bias agait science. Quite the contrary. When I arrived at the university -- I chose BYU over Caltech, which proved to have been a good step, given the way my interests developed -- I arrived as a mathematics major interested in cosmology. And, while I ultimately left sci...

While I clearly understand the TBM worldview, it becomes more and more difficult to understand how individuals can hold this view as science continues to illuminate and shrink gaps in our knowledge of how the universe works, and the secular (fact based) view of Mormon history becomes available on t...

I am, by the way, entirely serene about your reading an atheist's or agnostic's take on Mormonism. I myself am interested in reading what DrW has to say. Perhaps, if you yourself incline toward theism, you'll find his position just as challenging to your worldview as he intends it to be to mine. Bu...

Cynthia, If you are interested in MormonThink, you should probably not depend only on literature from the Mormon Church. You might want to look at more objective literature as well. Because Mormonism is so controversial (and for good reason), there is plenty of literature out there. I hope that you ...

I'm new here and I've been browzing for a while, and I just decided to make a topic on one of the reasons (one of the more important ones) I've joined the site. (I'm 16 and almost 17 just to make things clearer) <snip> I'm not at the point where I'm thinking there isn't a god, but I don't agree wit...

Hello Cynthia, As a member of the Mormon Church who understands that it is a fraud at the core, I would hope that you would be to be careful here as a parent. At 15, your daughter is still your responsibility. If she continues along in the Church, she will eventually have to make a choice as to what...