Simon Southerton wrote: As to the DNA issue, it is certainly an interesting one. I work in the field; well, I (my clients) hire archaeologists and geneticists for some of my clients' projects in Native American burial grounds.
Are they by any chance embroiled in a legal battle regarding the looting of burial remains?
Anyway, I applaud your disclaimer. The DNA could have indeed been changed to protect the innocent and any claims to the contrary are purely coincidence.
Yahoo Bot wrote:You and I ought to debate the resurrection.
There was no ressurection, There! Are ya happy now?
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo
Yahoo Bot wrote: There is nothing in the Church that would say that the Lamanites didn't merge with existing folk. Indeed, the Book of Mormon seems to imply that. So, far from a trick, the presence of Asiatic markers seems to support some of the Book of Mormon's more subtle implications.
Yes, there really isn't good scriptural support for the idea that the Lamanites merged and then dominated Native American civilizations.
We know from the DNA that if there was a Lehite merger, the ratio of Lehites to native "others" was at most 1 to 1000. Seems strange that there is not the slightest indication in the Book of Mormon that such a miraculous merger occurred.
How do you think the Lehites convinced the much larger native populations to hand over the reins of their civilizations?
LDS apologetics --> "It's not the crime, it's the cover-up, which creates the scandal." "Bigfoot is a crucial part of the ecosystem, if he exists. So let's all help keep Bigfoot possibly alive for future generations to enjoy, unless he doesn't exist." - Futurama
Simon Southerton wrote:In response to scientific research LDS apologists have retreated to a Limited Geography model for the Book of Mormon. Most Mormon scholars have now adopted Mesoamerica as the only reasonable geographic setting for the Book of Mormon.
It part of their desperate, last ditch spin job. By doing this they throw 150 years work of teachings of the Prophets and Apostles (in including JSjr) under the buss. Essentially every temple dedication prayer that has taken place in the southwest and south America has referenced the Laminate people.
Also, I think their claim that the Book of Mormon does mention “others” is totally without support.
Yahoo Bot wrote:But it seems to me that if God has the wholesale power to change the color of skin at the snap of a figure, He has the means to use a DNA tweak to do so.
When God tweaked their DNA, why do you suppose he made their DNA appear to be Asian?
Simon Southerton wrote:How do you think the Lehites convinced the much larger native populations to hand over the reins of their civilizations?
Jihad and Taqiyya?
- VRDRC
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.