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Thank you Simon. I appreciate your work in doing this.

Thanks Simon. I see these were left out of the Interpreter article: The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana 12 Feb 2014 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v506/n7487/full/nature13025.html Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and ...

27. Nonlinguistic evidence of Semitic infusion in ancient America According to Hansen there is zero independent (other, nonlinguistic) evidence of Semitic infusion in ancient America. This is in line with the accepted paradigm because the DNA evidence of Semitic infusion does not receive much press...

"So is Tad promoting the idea that The Book of Mormon events took place in North America?"

Fairmormon tries to make a case that barley trade happened with Mesoamerica
https://www.fairmormon.org/blog/2010/04 ... -of-mormon

"Elder Callister said that President Heber J. Grant was ridiculed by a peer for believing in a book that spoke of an ancient people who built cement houses. In President Grant’s April 1929 general conference address, he said, “That [criticism] does not affect my faith one particle. I read the B...

The question is, does the church have a history of financial impropriety? Have you read Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907 to 1921? Joseph F. Smith was the first president of Utah-Idaho Sugar, from 1902 to 1918. He was al...

Simon Southerton wrote:These are the same folk who have been peddling Dean Session's "Universal Model" and Rodney Meldrum's "Heartland" snake oil.

Thanks Simon. I hadn't thought about that until you mentioned it here.

consiglieri wrote:It is perhaps more importantly an actual example of Joseph taking an idea that was originally his and then subsequently recasting it as a revelation from God, going so far as to put the words into God's mouth, while at the same time denying it was Smith's idea to begin with.

Powerfully said.

So Rusty says that the Mayans are Lamanites. Wow. Just wow.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/chu ... s?lang=eng

The whole presentation is amateur hour. That's for sure. He says "Surely Joseph Smith must have thought—like the vast majority of the rest of the world—that ancient civilizations recorded their histories on papyrus or parchments, not metal plates." Where does he get the idea that nobody k...