Hello, my name is Elder Young. Hello. Did you know that Jesus lived here in the

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Hello.

Dr. Craig, I have a couple of stories for you of Mormons who have left the faith left

their church because of things that they've discovered about

Mormonism and what they're trying to do to handle that. And I find this very

interesting. I want to mention first of all a good resource you contributed to a book called

the New Mormon Challenge what was your article in that book?

My article was on Mormonism and contemporary cosmology

where I tried to show that the Mormon belief in an infinite regress of deities and cosmology and looked at the efforts of some Mormon scientists to make sense of

this and I encountered that same sort of mental between what modern cosmology tells us and Mormon belief in the eternally of the universe in the past.

This Mormon writes, one summer night during my time as a Mormon missionary, my companion and I walked into an open

apartment window where we overheard a group of male college students were making fun of, you

guessed it, Mormons.

We stopped and listened for a while and then like any good missionaries that we knocked on the door.

The students were wide-eyed and speechless when they answered.

They invited us in trying to stifle laughs.

And they said they had recently watched an episode of South Park

that was all about Mormons. They asked us how much of the episode was true.

Specifically, they were wondering whether Joseph Smith really looked into a hat to translate

the Book of Mormon.

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