(UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
Book of Mormon (Archeology/Geography/DNA/Etc.)
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01/15/04 through 02/03/04
A fascinating debate on DNA examining "ancestral slots" and their ramification for Amerindian / Book of Mormon pedigree; primarily Between Exegete and MorgbotX:
http://pub26.ezboard.com/fpacumenispagesfrm67.showMessageRange?topicID=126.topic&start=1&stop=100
For further discussions on the relevance of DNA to the Book of Mormon, see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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01/27/04 Through 02/04/04
A discussion of whether the LDS scholarly argument - that the Book of Mormon peoples were a subset of prior indigenous "land bridgers" - is an ad hoc argument arising out of the necessity of science.
http://pub26.ezboard.com/fpacumenispagesfrm67.showMessage?topicID=210.topic
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Modern Social Issues (Demographics/Legal/Etc)
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10/15/02 Through 11/06/03
Follow this thought-provoking conversation concerning the Main Street Plaza uproar; Currently the longest discussion in ZLMB history (extending over a year and well over a thousand posts), it wrangles with the legal, civic, and religious quandary arising out of the Ninth Circuit Court's ruling that the City of Salt Lake City was in violation of constitutional liberties when it sold a parcel of Main Street to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - with a gaurantee that the Church could maintain standards of dress and conduct - while retaining a city-controlled pedestrian easement. http://pub26.ezboard.com/fpacumenispagesfrm64.showMessageRange?topicID=56.topic&start=1&stop=100 For further discussion on the Main Street Plaza issue, see here.
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This ZLMB conversation enquiring about LDS views on gay marriage arose as the national debate heated up with the State of Massachussets, city of San Francisco, and the county of Multnomah, Oregon, beginning to issue or on the verge of issuing lisences for homosexuals to get married.
http://pub26.ezboard.com/fpacumenispagesfrm67.showMessage?topicID=364.topic
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Polygamy
Deification
Discussions on Publications (FARMS/Abanes/reviews/etc)
Book of Abraham
Curse of Cain
Foundational stories of the Church (1st vision, Moroni visit, etc)
Biblical Criticism (flood/tower/egyptian bondage, etc)
Science (big bang/evolution/DNA/health benefits of WOW, etc)
Brigham Young (adam/god/polygamy/founding of deseret/etc)
Alternate Theories for BoM Origins
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01/15/04 through 02/03/04
A fascinating debate on DNA examining "ancestral slots" and their ramification for Amerindian / Book of Mormon pedigree; primarily Between Exegete and MorgbotX:
http://pub26.ezboard.com/fpacumenispagesfrm67.showMessageRange?topicID=126.topic&start=1&stop=100
For further discussions on the relevance of DNA to the Book of Mormon, see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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01/27/04 Through 02/04/04
A discussion of whether the LDS scholarly argument - that the Book of Mormon peoples were a subset of prior indigenous "land bridgers" - is an ad hoc argument arising out of the necessity of science.
http://pub26.ezboard.com/fpacumenispagesfrm67.showMessage?topicID=210.topic
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10/15/02 Through 11/06/03
Follow this thought-provoking conversation concerning the Main Street Plaza uproar; Currently the longest discussion in ZLMB history (extending over a year and well over a thousand posts), it wrangles with the legal, civic, and religious quandary arising out of the Ninth Circuit Court's ruling that the City of Salt Lake City was in violation of constitutional liberties when it sold a parcel of Main Street to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - with a gaurantee that the Church could maintain standards of dress and conduct - while retaining a city-controlled pedestrian easement. http://pub26.ezboard.com/fpacumenispagesfrm64.showMessageRange?topicID=56.topic&start=1&stop=100 For further discussion on the Main Street Plaza issue, see here.
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This ZLMB conversation enquiring about LDS views on gay marriage arose as the national debate heated up with the State of Massachussets, city of San Francisco, and the county of Multnomah, Oregon, beginning to issue or on the verge of issuing lisences for homosexuals to get married.
http://pub26.ezboard.com/fpacumenispagesfrm67.showMessage?topicID=364.topic
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Polygamy
Deification
Discussions on Publications (FARMS/Abanes/reviews/etc)
Book of Abraham
Curse of Cain
Foundational stories of the Church (1st vision, Moroni visit, etc)
Biblical Criticism (flood/tower/egyptian bondage, etc)
Science (big bang/evolution/DNA/health benefits of WOW, etc)
Brigham Young (adam/god/polygamy/founding of deseret/etc)
Alternate Theories for BoM Origins
