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Jon resides in Utah and was raised as a member of the LDS faith. After much study, soul-searching, and prayer, he came to conclude that he was probably wrong about his faith. Committed to finding truth, he continues to explore faith, science, and critical thinking.

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Postmodernism in religious thinking

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Post-modernism is arguably the most depressing philosophy ever to spring from the western mind. It is difficult to...
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Evidence for the Book of Mormon: Do Nahom and Bountiful exist?

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According to the Book of Mormon, Lehi and his family leave Jerusalem and travel south near the coast of the Red Sea, stop at a place called Nahom,...
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A scientist's evidence for belief in God

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With Francis Collins recently being named as the head of the National Institutes of Health, I thought it would be fun to give his book a quick review....
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Is Mormon theology diverging into new directions?

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For six months after the death of Joseph Smith, different factions fought for control of the LDS Church. Sidney Rigdon, Brigham Young, and James...
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Challenge your base assumptions to get closer to truth

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Our understanding of the world is built up from assumptions. Like a foundation for a building, these assumptions hold everything else up. We can...
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Do morals come from God? A critique of the Moral Argument

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Perhaps the most popular use of the Moral Argument for the existence of God comes from C.S. Lewis in his book, Mere Christianity. It has also...
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What's to be gained by criticizing faith?

When those of faith are challenged, they frequently respond, "What do you have to gain by trying to take this away from me? What does atheism...
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Exploring the New God Argument by the Mormon Transhuman Association

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Lincoln Cannon recently left me the following comment: I'd like to invite your feedback on the New God Argument (do a Google search). It's basically...
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Responding to LDS comments about Native American DNA

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My previous article generated a lot of comments that I thought were deserving of a response, so I wanted to do that...
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Is it LDS belief that Native Americans descended from Israelites?

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I recently wrote about a new DNA study which helped confirm that Native Americans are the descendants of a group of Siberians that crossed the Bering...
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