Rich's Website

[_Yoda]

Did you utilize any of the church provided resources to discover the facts? (BYU libraries, church history library, office of church historian, etc.?)

How can you look up information on an issue that you don't know exists?

[_Doctor Scratch]

Did you utilize any of the church provided resources to discover the facts? (BYU libraries, church history library, office of church historian, etc.?)

How can you look up information on an issue that you don't know exists?

This is to say nothing of how a person living outside the SLC area is supposed to access this stuff.

[_Simon Belmont]

This is to say nothing of how a person living outside the Salt Lake City area is supposed to access this stuff.

BYU has massive online resources.

[_Yoda]

Did you utilize any of the church provided resources to discover the facts? (BYU libraries, church history library, office of church historian, etc.?)

How can you look up information on an issue that you don't know exists?

This is to say nothing of how a person living outside the Salt Lake City area is supposed to access this stuff.

You are correct about a large bulk of it, Scratch. Many of the strong resources are only in printed form, and are not yet online.

Although the e-book is quickly expanding our ability to access a lot of this stuff online, it is still a slow process. I hope that the Church decides to spend the necessary time and money to update this issue.

[_Yoda]

This is to say nothing of how a person living outside the Salt Lake City area is supposed to access this stuff.

BYU has massive online resources.

Point well-taken and addressed in my previous post.

There is, however, still the matter of my other question/observation. How can we look up information on issues we do not know exist?

And...Simon...thanks for addressing my points. Much appreciated. :-)

[_Jersey Girl]

Okay, but tell me why you single out Criddle with regards to the wordprint studies?

One of Rich's many anti-Mormon links (and, I might add, only one non-anti-Mormon link) was to Craig Criddle's word-print study. When I posted Rich's anti-Mormon links, you asked about Craig Criddle. Other than that, I am not singling him out.

Do you mean these?

Sidney Ridgon Creating the Book of Mormon — Craig Criddle
Craig Criddle, a well-known anti-Mormon.
Tracking Authorship Through the Book of Mormon — Craig Criddle (under construction)
Craig Criddle, a well-known anti-Mormon.

[_schreech]

Schreech, you're now embarrassing yourself beyond any reasonable measure. Just stop it. You lost.

I "lost" what? I am "embarrassing" myself because you don't have a firm command of the english language? Its good to see you are closely following the "rules" in my link below...you seem to have covered about half of them with one post...I think the funniest thing is that you have yet to show how Rich has "attacked" anyone but you seem to think its ok to "attack" him...you are nothing more than an egotistical (or insecure) hypocrite..

[_Simon Belmont]

I "lost" what? I am "embarrassing" myself because I don't have a firm command of the english language?

Fixed it for you.

Go away now.

[_Yoda]

So, Simon...

Do you have an answer to my question? Or, at least understand where I'm coming from?

I think it probably goes back to the issue of correlation where we both agree.

There needs to be some faith-promoting, yet truthful statements and resources which address some of the controversial historical issues, such as polygamy, MMM, Joseph's polyandry, the incident between Joseph and Fanny, etc. in basic Church curriculum.

[_Simon Belmont]

There is, however, still the matter of my other question/observation. How can we look up information on issues we do not know exist?

Well, Liz...

This is where critical thinking comes in. I don't believe we should accept anything we're told at face value. Part of thinking for ourselves means understanding that we must discover things for ourselves, and either confirm or deny what others tell us.