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===Biodiversity versus the flood of Noah=== | |||
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===Evolution and the origin of Man=== | |||
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===Archaeology and the Book of Mormon=== | |||
{{MainArticle|wikilink=[[Book of Mormon archaeology]]}} | |||
===Predestination=== | |||
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===Burning in the bosom=== | |||
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Secular critics attempt to associate the "burning in the bosom" to chemical processes that occur in the brain. | |||
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===Genetics=== | |||
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Revision as of 11:48, 25 July 2008
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Criticism
- Critics claim that Mormons believe that if there is a conflict between science and religion, that the science is incorrect.
- Critics claim that Mormonism reserves the right to identify scientific truth.
Source(s) of the criticism
- Simon Southerton, Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2004) 135–136. ( Index of claims )
Response
Biodiversity versus the flood of Noah
Main article: Global or local Flood
Did the continents separate during the flood of Noah?
Age of the Earth
Do Mormons believe that the Earth only 6000 years old?
Dinosaurs
Main article: Dinosaurs
Evolution and the origin of Man
Main article: Evolution
Archaeology and the Book of Mormon
Main article: Book of Mormon archaeology
Predestination
Main article: Free will and science
Burning in the bosom
Main article: Burning in the bosom
Secular critics attempt to associate the "burning in the bosom" to chemical processes that occur in the brain.
Statements made by past prophets regarding science
Main article: Changing doctrine
Genetics
Main article: Book of Mormon and DNA evidence
Conclusion
Endnotes
None
Further reading
- Henry Eyring, Reflections of a Scientist, (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1983)
FAIR wiki articles
FAIR web site
- FAIR Topical Guide: