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Wow !! It's interesting that you recommend a study of the analyses of Dr. David Wright concerning the Isaiah passages in the Book of Mormon. If I remember right, John Tvedtnes provided a short critical review of Dr. Wright?s article in a 2004 Maxwell Institute publication. Mr. Tvedtnes didn't think ...

Hi Wondering... welcome to the board! Here are a few issues that are difficult to resolve: - Polyandry - Polygamy - Priesthood witheld from Blacks - Masonic nature of temple ritual - Jeredite barges -- hard to envision ability to carry people, animals, cargo for a year-long ocean voyage based on Bo...

Here are a few issues that are difficult to resolve: - Polyandry - Polygamy - Priesthood witheld from Blacks - Masonic nature of temple ritual - Jeredite barges -- hard to envision ability to carry people, animals, cargo for a year-long ocean voyage based on Book of Mormon construction description -...

Dr. Peterson, Now that the skirmish between you and Dr. Shades has concluded, I would be interested in your views of the more important point: What are we to conclude when a prophet of God makes the pronouncement that President Young made that the penalty is death for having seed with the African ra...

If your response was aimed at me, TD, I can only assume that you're signaling your lack of interest in a focused examination of Shades's very clear and specific (and apparently false) claim. Is that correct? Dr. Peterson, I, for one, would be interested in your response to TDs last post, independen...

Dr. Peterson wrote: Whatever one may think about the strengths or weaknesses of David Wright's argument, or about the strengths or weaknesses of John Tvedtnes's response, it's incorrect to ascribe any of this to some monolith called FARMS. FARMS doesn't exist as a personality or hive-mind. John Tved...

Hmm. So far we have this: “Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine. A piece of something resembling parchment would appear, and on that appeared the wr...