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Lehi In the Wilderness: 81 New Evidences --and-- Children of Lehi: DNA and the Book of Mormon (WMV)

George D. Potter and Richard Wellington, "Lehi In The Wilderness: 81 New Evidences Documenting the Book of Mormon Is a True History," Mesa, Arizona: The Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research (FAIR), 2003 FAIR Conference, Windows Media Video (WMV).

Potter and Wellington have both spent many years living in, and investigating, the terrains of Arabia. Their presentation (complete with video footage) shows the plausibility of NephiÆs account of their travels through the wilderness, and the unlikelihood that Joseph Smith could have known about such details.

George Potter's interest in archaeology began as a LDS missionary in the Andes Mountains of Peru and Bolivia. He graduated with high honors from the University of California at San Diego, and two years later received a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley. On leaving the university he became a certified public accountant, and joined one of the Big 5 CPA firms. Later he entered management and consulting, two professions which have taken him to over 50 countries, including a five-year stay in Zurich, Switzerland. For the last ten years he has owned Bear River Training and Consultancy, a training, e-learning and financial services company located in Saudi Arabia. It was while exploring the deserts of Arabia that his interest in archaeology was rekindled. He has lectured at universities in the United States, Germany, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia. Besides co-authoring a book, he has produced eight films on his Book of Mormon research. He also researched and co-authored the book Discovering the Valley of Lemuel: Bountiful and 79 Other Reasons Why First Nephi Is A True History.

Brother Potter's discovery of a Valley of Lemuel candidate was published by FARMS/BYU in the November 1999 issue of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. Since then he has made presentations on his research to FARMS/BYU, BYU Alumni Association of Los Angeles, Ancient Americas Foundation and the staff of the Ensign Magazine.

Dr. Richard Wellington was born in 1957 in England. His family joined the Church in 1960 when they were living in Dnsseldorf, Germany. He graduated from GuyÆs Hospital Dental School, University of London, in 1980 with Honors in Paedodontics and Orthodontics. After graduation he moved to South Africa where he taught at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg and was part time in private practice in Sandton. In 1982 he returned to the UK and earned a Masters in Conservative Dentistry at the Eastman Institute, London University. In December 1983 he went to Saudi Arabia to work for the Arabian American Oil Company, where he worked for over 18 years as a specialist in Prosthodontics. It was here that Richard met George Potter and they started their work on Old World Book of Mormon geography. In 2000 Richard graduated as a C.D.T. (certified dental technician) from the US National Board of Certification. He returned to the UK in 2002 and presently work in private practice in Folkestone, England.

D. Jeffrey Meldrum, "Evolution and Latter-day Saint Theology: the Tree of Life and DNA," Mesa, Arizona: The Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research (FAIR), 2003 FAIR Conference, Windows Media Video (WMV).

D. Jeffrey Meldrum, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology at Idaho State University and research associate of the Idaho Museum of Natural History. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Zoology from Brigham Young University specializing in vertebrate locomotion; a Ph.D. in anatomical sciences, with an emphasis in physical anthropology, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, in 1989. His dissertation research was on terrestrial adaptations in the feet of African monkeys and implications for the evolution of hominid bipedalism. He conducted postdoctoral work at Duke University, where he added to his interests the evolutionary history of Neotropical primates, participating in fieldwork in Argentina and Colombia, and doing phylogeny reconstruction based on mitochondrial DNA sequences.

His first appointment was at Northwestern University Medical School's department of Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology, as part of the Evolutionary Morphology Group. While in Chicago he was a repeat invited speaker at the Chicago Center for Religion and Science. He returned to his home state of Idaho in 1993. At ISU he teaches human anatomy to health-professions graduate students, biological evolution, and primate studies. His research centers on vertebrate evolutionary morphology, with a renewed emphasis on the dynamics of the hominoid foot and the emergence of human bipedalism. He also directs a paleontological field project in southwestern Montana, collecting fossil Eocene mammals. He has published numerous scientific and popular articles. He has co-edited two volumes on the paleontology of Idaho, a volume on Mormonism and Evolution, and he is senior editor of From Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking Running and Resource Transport. He is acting director of a newly organized ISU Center for Motion Analysis and Biomechanics. He is active in issues relating to science education, participating in annual symposia on the teaching of evolution at the Idaho Science Teachers Association.

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