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You know. Having worked on my share of committees where the end product was a mish mash of ideas and unhappy compromises, this idea is really starting to make sense. - Doc This idea looks like an excellent example of deus ex machina , a classical, often supernatural, literary device used in plays a...

Anyone who Mormons without these elements is not really exhaustive in their practice. "Mormons" as a verb. Hmm. Once you decide whether to capitalize it or not, it could turn out to be a useful turn of phrase. Mormon [ mawr- muh  n ] noun 1. the popular name given to a member of the Churc...

mfbukowski on the other board made these nice comments (insults?) "Sigh It's just the old historic vs the newer spiritual understanding of our beliefs. It's no different than Book of Mormon geography vs horses in the Book of Mormon, metallurgy, translation vs revelation, the Book of Abraham, a...

mfbukowski wrote:Every alleged anachronism disappears if Joseph was teaching spiritual principles and not science or history.
When will we get over this nonsense??

Exiled wrote:Onward to a non-historical Book of Mormon, Ed Goble, onward.

Ed Goble and mfbukowski should have a sit-down.

The significance of being able to detect evidence of a single Native American woman migrating to Iceland, but not a single Lamanite in the New World, hadn't escaped my attention . For any who may have questioned whether Dr. Southerton is professional geneticist, his turn of phase above should remov...

Simon, I received an email from Ed Goble requesting additional information on a the DNA subject: [SNIP] If Ed Goble is serious, please suggest to him that he invest $7.50 in Dr. Southerton's book and learn not only the answer to his question, but gain enough background and contextual information on...

Thanks for writing and posting the OP, Gray Ghost. Since I was brought up with the Book of Mormon and New Testament as primary scriptures, with the Old Testament as something that was no longer that relevant to a Christian life, I never thought much about, or even recognized, the anachronisms you po...

The Vern Holley maps are a real problem for Book of Mormon defenders and best not mentioned in polite LDS company. Information in the maps fits well with the many other examples of Joseph Smith Jr. being 'greatly influenced by his environment' in his synthesis of the early Mormon religious narrative...

Greetings, Rick. Thanks for posting the quotation from Simon Worrall, The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery (New York: Dutton, 2002), 114-15. Bona fides established. Carry on. Reading about Mark Hoffmann and his long con on the hopelessly gullible senior le...

"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" just got a new set of lyrics for the Holiday Season at our house this year.