Jeff Lindsay

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This article is about the amateur Mormon apologist and professional engineer. For the fiction writer, see Jeff Lindsay (writer).

Jeffrey Dean Lindsay is a chemical engineer and patent agent^[1] who received attention as an amateur apologist for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

1 Apologetic career
2 Work outside Mormonism
3 Notes and references
4 External links

[edit] Apologetic career

While his professional career is as a corporate patent strategist and senior research fellow for the Kimberly-Clark Corporation in Neenah, Wisconsin, he is also known for his work in Mormon history, in particular responding to various statements from Anti-Mormon sources.

Lindsay has written an article Does DNA Evidence Refute the Book of Mormon?, in which he concluded that many Latter-day Saints incorrectly assumed that Lehi's group was the primary genetic source for all Native Americans and encouraged that such errant assumptions be abandoned. Additionally, he noted that the Book of Mormon does not make such claims regarding Lehi and therefore only encourages a more enlightened view rather than complete abandonment of the Book of Mormon.^[2]

Lindsay's work in Mormon history has attracted the attention of various Mormon apologists, including the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies.

Richard Abanes refers to Lindsay's work as "numerous self-published articles, not scholarly, extremely biased, articles often based on misinformation."^[3] His claims are also frequently criticized by historians, and Exmormon and Anti-Mormon sources, ranging from general dismissal^[4] to point-by-point criticsm^[5].

Lindsay holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering but has no formal education in molecular biology.

[edit] Work outside Mormonism

Lindsay has published more than 50 papers dealing with the use of fluid dynamics in the paper and pulp industry, mostly for the Tappi Journal by the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. (TAPPI)^[1] In his position at Kimberly-Clark he also has been an inventor, co-listed on more than 80 United States patents filed for his employer, in the fields of chemical treatments of cellulose, RFID-related products, personal care products and paper engineering.^[6]

Lindsay is an outspoken critic of block scheduling in North American secondary schools. His writings and other information posted on his website have been used as a resource by those seeking to promote or stop the introduction of block scheduling in their school.^[7]

[edit] Notes and references

^ ^a ^b Resume for Jeff Lindsay (SHTML). jefflindsay.com. Retrieved on 2006-07-06.
^ Jeffrey D. Lindsay. Does DNA Evidence Refute the Book of Mormon?. lds.org. Retrieved on 2006-06-24. A more recent version of his paper can be found on his web site.
^ Richard Abanes. 1-56858-283-8&id=Iy-F3Dg3LccC&pg=PA616&lpg=PA616&dq=jeff+lindsay&sig=WtncZxe9fuVQVUJ3V2cVPy5tFlo One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church. http://books.google.com. Retrieved on 2006-07-17.
^ For example, Mel Tungate a Mormon historian, has written : Please note that Jeff Lindsay has written an unkind rebuttal of this ( Steve LeSueur's ) book, and I fully dismiss Lindsay's work here as almost totally inaccurate. Mel Tungate. LDS Missouri Period. www.tungate.com. Retrieved on 2006-07-08.
^ For an example of a point-by-point refuting of some of Lindsay's points, see this blog entry from exmormon.org
^ For a more complete list see search results for patents and published pending patent applications for Jeffrey Lindsay in Wisconsin.
^ For example, Lincoln County Schools: Policies and Issues identified information acquired on Lindsay's website as helping eliminate block scheduleing at Lincoln County schools ("The Shillalah scoops the News-Times" (March 21, 1999). Shillalah (Waldport High School student newspaper). See section titled "LCSD philosophy and practice regarding libraries and literacy," 2nd paragraph.