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- Peterson: "Thomas Stuart Ferguson's biographer...makes every effort to portray Ferguson's apparent eventual loss of faith as a failure for 'LDS archaeology'" (2 interwikis)
- Peterson (2005): The plates "are an indigestible lump in the throats of people...who contend that there were no Nephites but that Joseph Smith was nonetheless an inspired prophet" (2 interwikis)
- Peterson (2014): "It’s rather like someone to ascribe early Christian belief to the resurrection of Jesus to the supposed fact that ancient people, unlike us, hadn’t yet realized that dead people tend to stay dead" (2 interwikis)
- W.W. Phelps (1833): "through the aid of a pair of Interpreters, or spectacles—(known, perhaps, in ancient days as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim)" (2 interwikis)
- Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (1912): "the Spaniards noticed herds of deer similar to our herds of cattle" (2 interwikis)
- Preach My Gospel: "many other nations and cultures have been blessed by those who were given that portion that God 'seeth fit that they should have'" (2 interwikis)
- "Recognizing the Voice of the Spirit" (Podcast): "How can I come to know that spiritual experience is not just a product of chemical processes in the brain?" (2 interwikis)
- Source:Priesthood:Millennial Star 14:38:none are required to tamely and blindly submit to a man because he has a portion of the Priesthood (2 interwikis)
- Prothero (2003): "in the 1832 version, Jesus appears to Smith alone, and does all the talking himself. Such complaints, however, are much ado about relatively nothing" (2 interwikis)
- Sorenson: Horse bones in Yucatan "considered to be pre-Columbian on the basis of depth of burial and degree of mineralization" (2 interwikis)
- Revelations in Context on history.lds.org: "Cowdery was among those who believed in and used a divining rod" (2 interwikis)
- Reverend Taggart (1833): "Joe Smith...told them he had seen Jesus Christ and the Apostles and conversed with them, and that he could perform miracles" (2 interwikis)
- Stephen E. Robinson: "Yet another way in which anti-Mormon critics often misrepresent LDS doctrine is in the presentation of anomalies as though they were the doctrine of the Church" (2 interwikis)
- Source:Roper:Eyewitness Descriptions of Mesoamerican Swords:the Mesoamerican weapon the macuahuitl fits the criteria for the Book of Mormon "sword" (2 interwikis)
- Roper: "Critics of the Book of Mormon have claimed that the limited geography is only a late, desperate attempt to defend the Book of Mormon" (2 interwikis)
- Roper: "For example, an iron knife was found in an eleventh century Philistine tomb showed evidence of deliberate carburization" (2 interwikis)
- Roper: "archaeologists have discovered a carburized iron sword near Jericho" (2 interwikis)
- Sorenson: The grain "Amaranth" in Mexico (2 interwikis)
- Sorenson: Linen and silk textiles in ancient America (2 interwikis)
- Sorenson: "The Miami Indians, for example, were unfamiliar with the buffalo and simply called them 'wild cows'" (2 interwikis)
- Sorenson: "Iron use was documented in the statements of early Spaniards, who told of the Aztecs using iron-studded clubs" (2 interwikis)
- Sorenson: "Lumps of hematite, magnetite, and ilmenite were brought into Valley of Oaxaca" (2 interwikis)
- Sorenson: "There is an animal which they call chic, wonderfully active, as large as a small dog, with a snout like a sucking pig. The Indian women raise them" (2 interwikis)
- Sorenson: "By 1400 BC, smiths in Armenia had discovered how to carburize iron by prolonged heating in contact with carbon" (2 interwikis)
- 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 interwikis)
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Joseph Smith was sealed to a number of women who were already married. Neither these women nor Joseph explained much about these sealings, though several women said they were for eternity alone" (2 interwikis)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Although some leaders had large polygamous families, two-thirds of polygamist men had only two wives at a time (2 interwikis)
- Gospel Topics: "Today, any person who practices plural marriage cannot become or remain a member of the Church" (2 interwikis)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:The Bible and the Book of Mormon teach that the marriage of one man to one woman is God’s standard, except at specific periods when He has declared otherwise (2 interwikis)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:Latter-day Saints do not understand all of God’s purposes for instituting, through His prophets, the practice of plural marriage during the 19th century (2 interwikis)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah:It is therefore difficult to accurately generalize about the experience of all plural marriages (2 interwikis)
- Gospel Topics: "Joseph Smith and his associates often used the term 'Urim and Thummim' to refer to the single stone as well as the interpreters" (2 interwikis)
- Gospel Topics: "During the first two decades of the Church’s existence, a few black men were ordained to the priesthood" (2 interwikis)
- Gospel Topics: "As Joseph grew to understand his prophetic calling, he learned that he could use this stone for the higher purpose of translating scripture" (2 interwikis)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:These two instruments—the interpreters and the seer stone—were apparently interchangeable (2 interwikis)
- Source:Gospel Topics:Book of Mormon Translation:According to these accounts, Joseph placed either the interpreters or the seer stone in a hat (2 interwikis)
- Gospel Topics: "the Bible mentions other physical instruments used to access God’s power: the rod of Aaron, a brass serpent, holy anointing oils, the Ark of the Covenant, and even dirt from the ground mixed with saliva" (2 interwikis)
- Gospel Topics: "Joseph Smith’s explanations of the facsimiles of the book of Abraham contain additional earmarks of the ancient world" (2 interwikis)
- Gospel Topics: "The phrase can be understood to mean that Abraham is the author and not the literal copyist" (2 interwikis)
- Gospel Topics on LDS.org: "Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists agree that the characters on the fragments do not match the translation given in the book of Abraham" (2 interwikis)
- The Palmyra Reflector (1831): "Jo Smith had now received a commission from God...Cowdery and his friends had frequent interviews with angels" (2 interwikis)
- Dr. Wendy Ulrich (2005): "How do the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when someone speaks in a testimony meeting differ from the goosebumps and tearfulness I experience when the 4:00 parade begins at Disneyland?" (2 interwikis)
- Source:Walker:Joseph Smith's Introduction to the Law:129-130:Under New York law, being just thirteen, Joseph's testimony about the work he had performed was admissible only after the court found him competent (2 interwikis)
- Stephen H. Webb: "Evidence That Demands Our Amazement... Joseph Smith was a remarkable person" (2 interwikis)
- Source:Webb:BYUS:2011:1:Sameness of Jesus' humanity (2 interwikis)
- David Whitmer (1881): "I do now again affirm the truth of all my statement, as then made and published" (2 interwikis)
- John A. Widtsoe (1943): "The Old Testament records a flood that was just over fifteen cubits (sometimes assumed to be about twenty-six feet) deep and covered the entire landscape" (2 interwikis)
- Wikipedia: Amaranth and the Aztecs (2 interwikis)
- Wikipedia: Mammoths "were members of the family Elephantidae" (2 interwikis)
- Wikipedia: Bighorn sheep "crossed to North America over the Bering land bridge" (2 interwikis)