DiscussMormonism.com

I think they are using at least a subset of math and science called "religious math and science." It's just like regular math and science except shrouded in an overpowering desire to believe a certain conclusion. So, mathematical formulas and the scientific method are eternally skewed in favor of th...

Philo sophee is nice and self-deprecating to a fault. I don't think there is a nasty bone in his body. Kerry's nasty and spiteful reinvention of those with whom he was once happy to associate both puzzles and saddens me, and I won't permit it to infect this place. Wrong, wrong, wrong. The "satan tur...

Oliver Cowdery was a school teacher. David Whitmer, by all metrics, was a competent human being. Again, the narrative that Joseph Smith did this all by himself, especially with the false 90-day timeline, is just sheer fantasy. - Doc Here is something you might like. John Smith, professor of Dartmou...

Here is another article about an old dialect spoken on another isolated island:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/2019 ... an-english

There are linguists who study the Appalachian dialect that included Palmyra and they say it could be close to Elizabethian or Early Modern English. https://daily.jstor.org/the-legendary-language-of-the-appalachian-holler/ This is such an important point. As a journalist, I have had to decipher diff...

Regarding "length": But it shows how it would be reasonable for someone to pick up the Book of Mormon and get the sense that they should take it seriously. It sets the first block in a foundation of reasoned skepticism—not skepticism of the church’s truth claims (there’s plenty of that to go around...

I think we are seeing some cognitive dissonance pains. Ideeho is a little too aggressive here, a little too frustrated. Perhaps Ideeho needs to rethink his assumptions. Perhaps it doesn't withstand scrutiny? Perhaps Gemli's points are worthy because Mormonism isn't?

I think the terms should be changed Dr. Moore, if I am right in what Dr. Scratch is going to propose. Let's see what KR will do. He can do whatever he wants with what he gets from the challenge, but I like having the incentives increased to see what our hero will do in this morality play. Will he do...

How long before claimed "bias" is used as an excuse for failure to account for valid criticism? Team bayes are probably conscious of this excuse at all times as it is the only response. The Dales were pretty quick to accuse the "haters" with bias. I'm sure KR will do the same thing as time goes on. ...

About 20 min in. I wonder how Kerry would be as recurring guest on Mormonism Live or RFM? Kerry's enthusiasm is so infectious ...