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Originally Posted by Archaea
You assume he's seeking, not just employing a rhetorical device.
Scholarship costs money and money exists for things that are largely predominant
Mormons are so unimportant outside our sphere, nobody gives a hoot and holler about us. There is no money in it, so nobody will fund it, to debunk it or to prove it.
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That's a very good point. Evangelicals, though, have an incentive to disprove Mormon scholarship; they compete with Mormons for converts. The following may be hindsight, but it's not surprising that they have been the first in over a decade to notice FARMS scholarship, recognize its scholarly credentials (in terms of doctorates), and issue an intellectual call-to-arms rebuttal.
By the way, have you read
New Mormon Challenge? About 1/3 of its chapters are philosophy.