Personally I do not find the CES Letter to be THAT persuasive (if I did I would be leaving the church now). To me these are the standard issues I heard throughout my mission and I consider them circumstantial evidence. It's not that they are wrong. It is that a doubt against these doubts CAN be raised. What I DO find persuasive and incapable of being disputed are the following silver bullets:

1. The JS polygamy story on its own. So he cheated on his wife (We all know that's what Fanny Alger was), lied about that, decided to write Section 132 to cover himself for future infidelity and in which he shames his wife for rejecting polygamy, then lied to almost everyone, he lied in affidavits and had "witnesses" do the same, then sent men away on missions so he could marry their wives, married teens, then when he gets called out on it he slanders the publishers, he destroys the printing press against the governors advice, calls out the militia and when they finally jail him over it he tries to fight back in a gun battle and dies.

Please tell me if I missed some facts or misstated facts.

1. Section 77:6 of the D&C wherein JS says he asks God a question and God answers that the earth is 7,000 years old. I have no idea how anyone with half a brain explains that one away.

2. The Peep stone - to me this is on pretty solid ground because you have to accept, well, magic! You have to believe that JS successfully used the peep stone(s) to find buried treasure. To me this item needs no further explanation. I do not and never will believe in finding buried treasure using a peep stone. Nor do I believe in Unicorns or Harry Potter. And this clearly gets back to translation credibility. OK, this one isn't exactly a silver bullet because you have to connect a few dots beyond.

I don't know. Anything else anyone sees as a slam dunk silver bullet?