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Recently, archaeologists have discovered the creation engraved in a Mayan temple in El Mirador, Guatamala. This is the same creation from the Popul Vuh, a Mayan work which relates many Biblical stories including the creation, and the great flood in Noahs time. It was thought that these stories were influenced by Catholic Priests, but, as this clip shows, there may be a more ancient setting for these stories.
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Prompt: Please write a 500-700 word response on your experience visiting the Crandall Printing Museum.

Response: The Crandall Printing Museum was incredibly amazing. I am so happy I was able go and learn a lot more about the history of the printing press and how it directly affected the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This was such an awesome experience. I even want to go again to catch things I mig... Read More

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                  This last week I had the opportunity to attend a tour of the Crandall Printing Museum located on Center Street in Provo, Utah. The museum is very interesting and unique. The museum has several antique printing presses dated from different times of the printing press era. One of their prize printers is an original Gutenberg Press. The adorable men, direc... Read More

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Last week I visited the Crandall Printing Museum on Center Street in Provo, UT. This was my second time visiting the museum. The two hour tour covers the transmission of scriptures from their inception to the printing of the book of Mormon in 1830. Despite the rehearsed jokes, the tour was actually very informative. The first time I went, I realized that the invention of the printing press was not really the invention that changed the world and bro... Read More

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    One of the primary purposes of the book of Mormon is to draw all men nearer to God.  Yet skeptics of the book’s origins get caught up in the peripheral and miss out.  One of these topics is the treatment of the American Revolution which they suppose to be the product of Joseph Smith’s absorption of 19th Century ideas in New York.  From Richard Bushman’s analysis of this topic... Read More

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