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- Southerton (2008/2014): "It's true that if a small group (say 10 people) entered a massive population (say 1 million), that it would be hard to detect their mitochondrial or Y chromosome DNA" (2 categories)
- Olson (2004): "People may like to think that they're descended from some ancient group while other people are not. But human ancestry doesn't work that way, since we all share the same ancestors just a few millenniums ago" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send men on missions in order to "steal" their wives while they were gone? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith send William Law, Robert D. Foster, and Henry Jacobs on missions so that he could steal their wives? (2 categories)
- Question: What possible modern lessons can we learn from Emma and Joseph's struggle with plural marriage? (2 categories)
- Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Study Guide: "These papyri contain authentic Egyptian writings, but they do not date to the time of Abraham, nor do they contain the actual personally handwritten account of Abraham" (2 categories)
- Question: Do we have all of the papyri that Joseph Smith had? (2 categories)
- Question: How does the Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language (GAEL) relate to the Book of Abraham? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the characters on the papyri written by Abraham himself? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Joseph Smith papyri consist of Egyptian funerary documents? (2 categories)
- Question: Do the Joseph Smith papyri date back to the time of Abraham? (2 categories)
- Turley claimed that John Whitmer said: "I now say I handled those plates. there was fine engravings on both sides. I handled them...and they were shown to me by a supernatural power" (2 categories)
- Question: How many times was Joseph Smith involved with legal issues? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith make an error by claiming that Elias and Elijah are two different people, when they are in fact one and the same? (2 categories)
- Criticism of Mormonism/Books/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri/Larson "restoration" of Facsimile 1 (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Book of Abraham (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Polygamy and Polyandry (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Witnesses (2 categories)
- Detailed response to CES Letter, Science (2 categories)
- Question: How does archaeology in the Old World compare to the first chapters in the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: What is "Polyandry?" (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have any children through any of his polyandrous marriages? (2 categories)
- Question: What is the light which comes from the presence of God? (2 categories)
- Question: Does the Book of Abraham state that the sun gets its photons from Kolob? (2 categories)
- Question: Why are many of the quotes from Isaiah in the Book of Mormon identical to those in the King James Bible? (2 categories)
- Matthews: "To regard the New Translation...as a product of divine inspiration given to Joseph Smith does not necessarily assume that it be a restoration of the original Bible text" (2 categories)
- Question: How is the Joseph Smith Translation best understood? (2 categories)
- Question: Why does "Nahom" constitute archaeological evidence for the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph Smith have access to materials related to Nahom at Allegheny College? (2 categories)
- Question: How does archaeology in the New World fit with the Book of Mormon? (2 categories)
- Question: How would Book of Mormon archaeology compare to that of the Bible? (2 categories)
- Question: What do we find when we turn to the records of the ancient (i.e. before A.D. 400) Americas? (2 categories)
- Question: What archaeological evidence might be considered the minimal irrefutable proof needed to convince a non-believing world of the authenticity of the Nephite scripture? (2 categories)
- Question: How would an archaeologist distinguish a Christian's pot from that of a non-Christian? (2 categories)
- Question: Could Joseph Smith have acquired the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" from a map of the Comoro archipelago off the coast of Africa? (2 categories)
- Question: Were the names "Moroni" and "Cumorah" available on maps accessible to Joseph Smith? (2 categories)
- Question: Has the book ''View of the Hebrews'' been readily available? (2 categories)
- Question: Is there a link between Ethan Smith, author of ''View of the Hebrews'', and Oliver Cowdery? (2 categories)
- Question: Why did Joseph Smith make changes to the Book of Mormon such as modifying "God" to read "the Son of God"? (2 categories)
- Question: Does Church art always reflect reality? (2 categories)
- Question: Why are people concerned about Church artwork? (2 categories)
- Question: How do non-Mormon artists treat the Nativity? (2 categories)
- Question: What message does the Book of Mormon translation painting convey? (2 categories)
- Question: Are the ages stated in Joseph's accounts of the First Vision 'all over the place?' (2 categories)
- Question: Is there a case where Joseph stated that his age was 17 rather than 14 at the time of the First Vision? (2 categories)
- Question: How do the First Vision accounts compare on the subject of Joseph's motivation for praying? (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith: "Jesus Christ became a ministering spirit (while his body was lying in the sepulcher)...After His resurrection He appeared as an angel to His disciples" (2 categories)
- Joseph Smith (14 Nov. 1835): "I received the first visitation of angels, which was when I was about fourteen years old" (2 categories)
- Question: Did the actual words "God the Father" and "Jesus Christ" appear in Joseph's 1838 account of the First Vision? (2 categories)
- Question: Did Joseph mention a "pillar of fire" or a "pillar of light" in his 1832 account of the First Vision? (2 categories)