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==A FAIR Analysis of the online document ''Letter to a CES Director'' section "Science Concerns & Questions"== | ==A FAIR Analysis of the online document ''Letter to a CES Director'' section "Science Concerns & Questions"== | ||
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|claim=The letter states, "2 Nephi 2:22 and Alma 12:23-24 state there was no death of any kind (humans, all animals, birds, fish, dinosaurs, etc.) on this earth until the “Fall of Adam”, which according to D&C 77:6-7 occurred 7,000 years ago. It is scientifically established there has been life and death on this planet for billions of years. How does the Church reconcile this?" | |claim=The letter states, "2 Nephi 2:22 and Alma 12:23-24 state there was no death of any kind (humans, all animals, birds, fish, dinosaurs, etc.) on this earth until the “Fall of Adam”, which according to D&C 77:6-7 occurred 7,000 years ago. It is scientifically established there has been life and death on this planet for billions of years. How does the Church reconcile this?" | ||
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|claim=The letter notes, "Science has proven that there was no worldwide flood 4,500 years ago....There are a bunch of other problems with the global flood and Noah’s ark story but I find it incredible that this is supposed to be taken literally considering the abundance of evidence against it." | |claim=The letter notes, "Science has proven that there was no worldwide flood 4,500 years ago....There are a bunch of other problems with the global flood and Noah’s ark story but I find it incredible that this is supposed to be taken literally considering the abundance of evidence against it." | ||
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A FAIR Analysis of the online document Letter to a CES Director section "Science Concerns & Questions"
- Response to section: "no death of any kind (humans, all animals, birds, fish, dinosaurs, etc.) on this earth until the 'Fall of Adam'"
- "If Adam and Eve are the first humans, how do we explain the 14 other Hominin species who lived and died 35,000 – 250,000 years before Adam?" [Work in Progress]
- "Science has proven that there was no worldwide flood 4,500 years ago"
- "Tower of Babel" [Work in Progress]
- "People living to be 600+ years old" [Work in Progress]
- "Humans and animals having their origins from Noah’s family and the animals contained in the ark 4,500 years ago." [Work in Progress]
- "Jonah and the whale" [Work in Progress]
- "People turning into salt in Sodom & Gomorrah" [Work in Progress]
- "the sun getting its light from Kolob" [Work in Progress]
- "They carried honey bees across the ocean? Swarms of them?" [Work in Progress]