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Kinderhook Plates
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Criticism
Critics charge that Joseph Smith claimed to have been able to translate the engravings on the Kinderhook plates. Since the discoverers of the plates later admitted they were forgeries, critics claim that Joseph Smith was fooled, and that this is evidence that couldn't tell real ancient artifacts from fakes and therefore this casts doubt on his ability to translate ancient records by the power of God.
Further reading
FAIR wiki articles
FAIR web site
- FairMormon Topical Guide: Kinderhook plates FairMormon link
- Ask the Apologist: How do we explain the early comments about the Kinderhook Plates? FAIR link
External links
- Wade Englund, "Kinderhook Plates: Putting an End to the Hoax," off-site
- Stanley B. Kimball, "Kinderhook Plates Brought to Joseph Smith Appear to Be a Nineteenth-Century Hoax," Ensign 11/8 (August 1981): 66.off-site (Key source)