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I’m not sure that what makes science work is a method, exactly. I learned about The Scientific Method in high school but the further I went on in science the less I heard about its great method. As far as I can tell the only real method is, Try hard not to be dumb. That may well mean that I just tak...

I think this is a good insight. I also think it’s not hard to see why evangelicals are easier targets for Mormon missionaries. Early 19th century New England was pretty fundamentalist evangelical by today’s standards, so Mormonism and evangelicalism diverged recently in evolutionary time. They share...

To me the big difference between history as it really happened, and any other kind of history, is that what happened once could happen again, but what is only imagined to have happened may well be impossible. So one can sometimes draw useful lessons from actual history, lessons that one could not ha...

[advocate] Calling Mormonism Yankee Voodoo wasn't meant to be a shot. I read a bit about Voodoo once. I understand it as a real religion, or at least a large expansion set to Catholicism that changes the game quite a bit. As I recall the main theoretical aspect of Voodoo is to have no theoretical as...

I feel bad that Kishkumen is getting piled on, here, so I'm going to play Elohim's Advocate, so to speak, and see whether I can think of Mormon big ideas besides "the Book of Mormon is true". I'm unlikely to be good at it, since such knowledge of Mormonism as I have is mostly from here or from apolo...

The thing about the old wine bottles is, that they really work. I believe that some people really can taste wine in incredible detail. Some people have perfect pitch, too. I have a mild case of red-green color blindness, tinnitus, and a palate dulled by chronic sinusitis. None of these is a really b...

Close examination of the original manuscript reveals that he is actually Allen “The Shrug” Wyatt. This transcription error is typical for a dictated text.

Does the Book of Mormon really say, "The laborer is worthy of his hire"? It's in the New Testament in several places but the only statement about laborers that the Topical Guide on churchofjesuschrist.org finds in the Book of Mormon has rather the opposite sense. But the laborer in Zion shall labor ...

This is most of what I was trying to say in the other thread, that the ancientness of scriptures is a crucial part of the brand identity. Wine from a dusty bottle with a fancy label actually tastes better because you make sure to appreciate however it tastes. The source is part of the message. One c...

I don't really know. I myself can't see any good explanation; to me this is a damning tell. But Doctrine and Covenants is also part of Mormon Scripture, modern revelations directly from God to the Prophet, so faithful Mormons may simply have their hands tied in this case. God commanded Smith not to ...