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Following the news and seeing how much the word "woke" is used I found it hard to understand what the conservatives meant using this as a means of put down. Even now the bank failure is used to be cause by "wokeness" DeSantis states that Florida is where woke comes to die. The population of Florida ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to split the red states from the blue states. The 10 poorest states are GOP states while the 10 wealthiest with exception of Alaska are Democrat run. Perhaps conservative Utah could be the capital of MTGs dream. Why does Utah need more?

https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics

This site argues man's origins are in Africa and we have similar dna with the apes

So man originated in Africa not Missouri

"It is wrong always everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence " W K Cifford

The "challenger" sounds to me more like a lawyer trying to get his client off the hook. Smith "pretended" he could understand the meaning of the figures in the facsimiles evidence of fraud? His interpretations were published in a church publication. What evidence is that it was given by revelation?

Israeli archaeologist Israel Finkelstein in The Bible Unearthed questions as do a number of scholars the historicity of the story of Abraham. "The biblical stories should be regarded as a national mythology with n more historical basis than the Homeric sage of Odysseus's travels or Virgil's sage of ...

We now know Smith restored the damaged facsimiles incorrectly. For example Fac 1 the original fac has a standing figure arm outreached. No knife in his hand. Klaus Baer said there was no fibers in the glue above the figures body indicating this was the state of the facsimile Smith removed from the m...

Royal Skousen from BYU argues that the facsimiles should be dropped from the Book of Abraham See page 39 of his CV https://humanities.byu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Royal-Skousen-VITA.18-7.pdf Givens to me "hi noel My views are pretty clearly laid out in my book, The Pearl of Greatest Price. In brief, l...

Recent census have confirmed that the fastest growing demographic in religion is that of the huge growth in the number who are considered "nones". They leave religion of any kind.There is an interesting paper in Patheos.com https://www.patheos.com/blogs/switchingsides/2023/01/research-into-religious...

It seems Givens and Skousen have taken the view the whole project was given by revelation. Those folks who bought Nibley's books must be livered. Is the response by Chris Smith and Andrew Cook still the best argument over the length of the scroll.. https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/the-origin...