Another DNA hit on the Book of Mormon, this time from a rich Mormon!
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_The Nehor
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This is idiocy. It presupposes that there were no migrations to the Americas by anyone. If Lehi did show up would we find another 2600 year old mother-type and assume she was Sariah? No, they would breed into the population and genetically vanish.
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_Ten Bear
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The Nehor wrote:This is idiocy. It presupposes that there were no migrations to the Americas by anyone. If Lehi did show up would we find another 2600 year old mother-type and assume she was Sariah? No, they would breed into the population and genetically vanish.
I don't have an exact handle on the DNA issue yet. I suppose that if their were only a handful of Lehites that melted into millions of inhabitants who were already here, then it would wash out. But then why did the Book of Mormon ever have "principle" ancestor written at the front? Why was it taught that the American Indians were Lamanites?
If the Lehites were such a small drop in the bucket, then why does 2 Nephi promise that the new land will not have inhabitants on it?
".... that there shall none come into this land save they shall be brought by the hand of the Lord." and "....kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations..." I think it says. Why did the church even have to change the wording from "principle" to "amoung" in the first place? It should have been right to begin with.
(Side note: I don't like Will either.)
"If False, it is one of the most cunning, wicked, bold, deep-laid impositions ever palmed upon the world, calculated to deceive and ruin millions… " - Orson Pratt on The Book of Mormon