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Worse Than I Thought: Apologies for My Mistake about the CES Letter and Joseph’s Cosmology

In my previous post, “Joseph Smith and the Concept of Multiple Inhabited Worlds: Just Simple Borrowing from Others?,” I made a serious blunder when I criticized the CES Letter regarding…

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Joseph Smith and the Concept of Multiple Inhabited Worlds: Just Simple Borrowing from Others?

Neighbors in the Tarantula Nebula, just 160,000 light years away. Latter-day Saints with an interest in science are often intrigued by the coherent network of ideas Joseph Smith’s revelations provide…

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Daniel Peterson Quotes a Questionable LDS Apologist, But the Rest of His Presentation Was Good

At the recent FAIR Conference, among the very interesting presentations was Daniel Peterson’s excellent reminder about the gaps and fallacies in the commonly mentioned CES Letter. His talk, “Some Reflections…

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No Evidence at All?

One critic posting on my comments pages recently explained why he didn’t believe in Jesus. The argument he offered looked logically constructed and was presented with a “slam dunk” air….

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