Evidence for the Book of Mormon with Dan Peterson

#bookofmormon #bookofmormoncentral #danpeterson #mormon In todays episode I bring on scholar, apologist and former BYU Professor Daniel Peterson. Dan has been involved in apologetics, FAIR and the Interpeter Foundation. In part 1 we discuss his background in apologetics and what he sees as evidence to support the Book of Mormon's authenticity and historicity. Check out Dan on other videos here    • Daniel C. Peterson, "A Scholar Looks at Ev...   Evidences for the Book of Mormon    • Evidences for The Book of Mormon   Evidences FAIR    • "The Book of Mormon Witnesses: Sincerity a...   Sincerity of the witnesses Don’t forget to like, comment, share and subscribe to my channel! You can leave a donation via Paypal, Patreon or superchats on YouTube! My website https://mormonism-with-the-murph.co.uk TikTok   / mormonismwiththemurph1   Check out my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... Facebook profile   / mormonismwiththemurph   Check out my podcast on spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/0wZVNBA... Please donate to support me via Paypal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/smy19... Please donate to my Patreon and get monthly perks   / mormonismwiththemurph   Timecodes 00:00 Opening thoughts 02:35 Dan's background in scholarship & apologetics 09:00 Opening thoughts on the coming forth of the Book of Mormon 16:13 Joseph's level of education 19:45 The oral dictation of the BOM in less of 85 days 20:47 The textual complexity of the Book of Mormon 23:45 Consistent internal geography in the Book of Mormon 27:00 Chiasmus in the book of Mormon 31:46 Hebraisms in the Book of Mormon 36:20 The 30 Kings in Ether and Joseph's memory 40:08 Old world geography & archaeological evidence 44:12 Nahom and bountiful a lucky hit? 47:55 Would the Lord provide proof for the Book of Mormon? 50:29 New world geography 52:12 Heartland vs Mesoamerican model 55:40 Convergences in the new world 57:20 Where did the belief in hemispheric model come from? 1:01:45 Racism in the Book of Mormon and the cursing of dark skin upon the lamanites 1:07:10 LIDAR Technology & New World archaeology 1:12:30 No artifacts for Nephite artifacts, buildings and battles 1:14:18 Two hill Cumorah's 1:18:52 The witnesses of the gold plates 1:26:17 Did the 3 witnesses having a vision or hallucination? 1:28:27 Martin Harris seeing with spiritual eyes 1:30:30 Unofficial witnesses of the gold plates 1:32:50 Stephen Burnett, did the witnesses see the plates? 1:37:30 Could Joseph have created his own set of metal plates? 1:40:40 The translation of the Book of Mormon- tight translation? 1:48:53 16th century cultural translation 1:52:00 The mechanics of the translation- words appearing on the stone 1:54:55 Sametic names in the Book of Mormon 1:58:20 Summary thoughts on the authenticity of the Book of Mormon