Topical Guide/Science and Religion

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    TOPICS

• Age of Earth (Link)
• Archaeology (Link)
• Creation (Link)
• DNA research (Link)
• Evolution (Link)
• Hoaxes (Link)
• Miracles (Link)
• Noah's Flood (Link)

    RESOURCES

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Topical Guide/Science and Religion

While doctrine is often the main focus of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, sometimes questions concerning how science affects and applies to the gospel arise. Below are links to multiple topics that address science in application to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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Approaching Science

• Mormonism and science/Determining truth
• Mormonism and science/Latter-day Saint approaches

Science Concerns and Topics

• Mormonism and science/Latter-day Saint attitude toward
• Mormonism and science/Creation and related issues
• Book of Mormon/Archaeology
• Book of Mormon/DNA evidence
• Mormonism and science/Latter-day Saint attitude toward
• Mormonism and science/Nature of Flood
• Intelligent life on other worlds

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Source(s) of the criticism

Critical sources

Richard Abanes, Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism (Harvest House Publishers: 2005). 74. ( Index of claims ) Duwayne R. Anderson, Farewell to Eden: Coming to terms with Mormonism and Science (First Books Library, 2003), 1–. John Dehlin,"348-349: Simon Southerton, DNA, Lamanites and the Book of Mormon," Mormon Stories Podcast (21 May 2012).   http://mormonstories.org/348-349-simon-southerton-dna-lamanites-and-the-book-of-mormon/ 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 )

    MEDIA

The Children of Lehi: DNA and the Book of Mormon, D. Jeffrey Meldrum and Trent D. Stephens, 2003 FAIR Conference

• Part 1: The Children of Lehi: DNA and the Book of Mormon
• Part 2: The Children of Lehi: DNA and the Book of Mormon
• Part 3: The Children of Lehi: DNA and the Book of Mormon
• Part 4: The Children of Lehi: DNA and the Book of Mormon
• Part 5: The Children of Lehi: DNA and the Book of Mormon
• Part 6: The Children of Lehi: DNA and the Book of Mormon

The Fallacy of Fundamentalist Assumptions, Blake Ostler, 2005 FAIR Conference

• Part 1: The Fallacy of Fundamentalist Assumptions
• Part 2: The Fallacy of Fundamentalist Assumptions
• Part 3: The Fallacy of Fundamentalist Assumptions
• Part 4: The Fallacy of Fundamentalist Assumptions
• Part 5: The Fallacy of Fundamentalist Assumptions
• Part 6: The Fallacy of Fundamentalist Assumptions

    PERSPECTIVES

• Science and Religion in the Encyclopedia of Mormonism