Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith Bettered This World

Hello, my name is Jason and this is my very first debate on this website. I stumbled across it through many miscellaneous meanderings through Google. When I found this website, I thought, "What a brilliant idea", and thus I am here to begin debating. And now for the topic at hand. Did the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith better this world? Before I go into the con aspect of this debate, let's define some terms. Mormon - politically correct definition would be Latter-Day Saints. Some say sect; others say cult, but nevertheless it is a branch of Christianity. Some things that would separate Mormonism from other sects of Christianity would be polygamy, The Book of Mormon, the temple in Utah, and the idea of who God is. This world - All people everywhere. Better - What a person considers to be beneficial. I hope you agree with these terms. Now then, first off, I would like to address the issue of Joseph Smith's supernatural encounters. I hope you will agree that if Joseph Smith lied about his experiences, then what he did was not beneficial to the world. For if Joseph Smith did lie about what he saw, then Mormons all over the world would be delusional. Truth should be our goal and aim because nothing less can suffice. Now of course it is impossible to directly verify Joseph Smith's experiences empirically because we were not with him, however, we can use our abilities of rational thought and common sense to determine if Joseph Smith was really telling the truth in The Book of Mormon. Therefore, here are three reasons as to why Joseph Smith probably lied. #1 - The Book of Mormon claims that the Native Americans are in fact descendants of the ancient Israelites. Recent DNA research has proved that the Native Americans known as "Lamanites" by the Mormons are not from Israel as Joseph Smith revealed. They are originally from Siberia/Mongolia, and much longer ago than a mere 2600 years. Furthermore, no DNA evidence supports or even hints that the Book of Mormon account of North American history is even remotely accurate. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org... #2 - The 'seer stone': http://en.wikipedia.org...(Latter_Day_Saints) Note several facts: The stone is only usable when one looks at it covered with a hat. Seer stones were also used to find buried treasure. James Strang also used a seer stone to translate ancient metal plates that he unearthed. #3 - The infinite regress of God. Mormonism teaches that God used to be a man on another world and that he became a God and created this world. He was able to become a God because he followed the laws and ordinances of the God he served on another world. That God in turn was exalted by his God, who was exalted by his God, ad infinitum. This is an impossibility because an infinite regression of causes is impossible. In order for us to get to the present state of this God on this planet, there would have had to be an infinite number of Gods in the past. But, this cannot be because in order to get to the present, you would have to transverse an infinite number of Gods. But that is impossible since you cannot transverse an infinity -- if you could cross (transverse) an infinity of time, then it isn't infinite. Therefore, the Mormon system of infinite regressions of Gods is impossible. Joseph Smith did not benefit our world because he did not encourage rational thought and an unrestricted search for truth. Rather he encouraged unquestioning faith in himself. Your move. :)