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Whether you're studying, teaching, or working through questions of your own, you'll find the strongest evidence that the Book of Mormon is what it says it is — and the hardest arguments against it — with the sources shown for every claim, so that you never have to take our word for anything.
Every item carries two scores — F for how solid the fact is, I for how much it points to an ancient book — because you deserve to know how sure we are.
Three stone altars found in Yemen, which carry the tribal name NHM and which date to Lehi's own century, stand in the very region where the Book of Mormon says a place “called Nahom” already stood.
Whatever you decide about the book, its 270,000 words were spoken aloud in about 65 to 75 working days, and the surviving manuscript shows a man dictating — not copying, and almost never going back to revise.
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Although critics spent a century laughing at “Alma” as a Latin woman's name stuck on a Nephite man, an ancient land deed found in 1961 carries the Hebrew signature of one “Alma son of Judah.”
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Because you can only trust us on the strong claims if we're honest about the hard ones, every criticism is written the way its own defenders would write it.
While science has real answers for how a small family's DNA can disappear inside a large population, the fact that no Middle Eastern trace shows up in Native American DNA is a serious argument, and we show you both its force and its limits.
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Although there are real arguments about translation — people throughout history have named unfamiliar animals after familiar ones — the text mentions horses where archaeology, so far, finds none, and we call this one hard because it is.
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Because whole chapters of the King James Bible, right down to its translators' word choices, appear in a book whose source claims to be 2,000 years older, this is the strongest version of the textual challenge — and we state it at full strength.
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Seven rules, built into the structure of this site rather than left to good intentions, govern everything we publish — from the requirement that every fact rest on an original source to the public list of claims we've looked at and set aside.