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View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- Peterson: "Thomas Stuart Ferguson's biographer...makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'" (transclusion) (← links)
- Brigham Young (1855): "The Lord did not come with the armies of heaven...But He did send His angel to this same obscure person, Joseph Smith jun" (transclusion) (← links)
- Brigham Young (1861): "The Lord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him visions" (transclusion) (← links)
- Brigham Young (1867): "the Lord called upon Joseph he was but a boy—a child, only about fourteen years of age" (transclusion) (← links)
- George A. Smith (1868): "revealed to Joseph by the ministration of angels, the true condition of the religious world" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How would an archaeologist distinguish a Christian's pot from that of a non-Christian? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What archaeological evidence might be considered the minimal irrefutable proof needed to convince a non-believing world of the authenticity of the Nephite scripture? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What do we find when we turn to the records of the ancient (i.e. before A.D. 400) Americas? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How would Book of Mormon archaeology compare to that of the Bible? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What do we find in Mesoamerican archaeology with respect to place names, such as city names? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How does archaeology in the Old World compare to the first chapters in the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How does archaeology in the New World fit with the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What criticisms are raised with regard to Book of Mormon archaeology compared to that of the Bible? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What is the Limited Geography Theory and model? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Has the Church ever promoted a Limited Geography model for the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why have Church leaders taught a hemispheric geography for the Book of Mormon rather than a limited one? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith teach a hemispheric, rather than a limited, geography model for the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was the Limited Geography model created in response to DNA claims? (transclusion) (← links)
- Roper: "Critics of the Book of Mormon have claimed that the limited geography is only a late, desperate attempt to defend the Book of Mormon" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What was known about iron in ancient America? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What was known about steel in ancient America? (transclusion) (← links)
- Hamblin: "there are no references to Nephite steel after 400 B.C." (transclusion) (← links)
- Gospel Topics: "The Book of Mormon...does not claim that the peoples it describes were either the predominant or the exclusive inhabitants of the lands they occupied" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why did the Church modify the introduction to the Book of Mormon from "principal ancestors" to "among the ancestors?" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Does the Church claim that Native Americans were the ''exclusive'' descendants of Lehi or Mulek? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Does the Church claim that Native Americans were the exclusive descendants of Lehi or Mulek? (transclusion) (← links)
- Southerton (2008/2014): "It's true that if a small group (say 10 people) entered a massive population (say 1 million), that it would be hard to detect their mitochondrial or Y chromosome DNA" (transclusion) (← links)
- Olson (2004): "People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not. But human ancestry doesn't work that way, since we all share the same ancestors just a few millenniums ago" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What is the origin of the modern horse in the New World? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why are horses considered an anachronism in the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: In what context are elephants mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: In what context are chariots mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have utilized place names and locations from the region in which he lived to create the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: How valid are the names used in the Holley Map? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Are the names on the Holley Map in the correct locations relative to one another? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have heard the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from American whalers? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Why was the name "Cumorah" originally spelled "Camorah" in the 1830 Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- McGuire: "Anjouan, one of the Comoro islands, with an indicated anchorage identified as Meroni" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from stories of Captain Kidd that he read in his youth? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What is the relationship between Captain Kidd and the Comoro archipelago? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was Captain Kidd "hanged for crimes allegedly committed in the vicinity of Moroni on Grand Comoro?" (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have used Ethan Smith's ''View of the Hebrews'' as a guideline for creating the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Was the ''View of the Hebrews'' theory of Book of Mormon origin advanced during the lifetime of Joseph Smith? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What did B.H. Roberts say about ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: What are the similarities and differences between ''View of the Hebrews'' and the Book of Mormon? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Has the book ''View of the Hebrews'' been readily available? (transclusion) (← links)
- Question: Is there a link between Ethan Smith, author of ''View of the Hebrews'', and Oliver Cowdery? (transclusion) (← links)
- Gospel Topics: "Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term 'Urim and Thummim' to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters" (transclusion) (← links)