[allmendream]

The assumptions based upon the data are the same.

The principles of DNA divergence and homology that show how long ago Native Americans and Jews shared a common ancestor are identical to the principles of DNA divergence and homology that show when humans and chimps shared a common ancestor. Both the theory and techniques used are identical.

The same posters who would decry the use of linguistics, archeology, or DNA analysis when the results conflict with their theological cosmology seem to take to it like a fish to water when it it conflicts with Mormon theology.

That is an observation, not a strawman argument, and I have stated the case quite accurately.

When you throw a rock at a pack of mongrels, the one that yelps is the one that got hit.

[Godzilla]

I agree with Litekeeper's identification of your strawman. DNA analysis is not a single track field. DNA is established well enough to send you to jail in regards to a crime, for example. Secondly, the use here is not to try to match some divergence based upon an evolutionary theory, but identify key haplotypes which act like fingerprints of the basic types of humans. Significantly different applications and assumptions.

The same posters who would decry the use of linguistics, archeology, or DNA analysis when the results conflict with their theological cosmology seem to take to it like a fish to water when it it conflicts with Mormon theology.

Linguistics do not conflict with my theology, neither does archaeology (which infact reinforces and confirms it in many ways), or DNA. The problem you face is the convergence of these fields (as well as others such as anthropology) that over and over again show that the story presented in the bom is fictional. I could show you the pavement stones Jesus stood upon infront of Pilate (the real ones, not the present day via dolarosa) - can you show me the same for where Jesus stood here in the Americas? Can you show me where any of the 35 or so major bom cities have been found? If mormons were so sure about the truth of the bom account, why are there at least 4 major, competing theories regarding where the bom took place?

That is an observation, not a strawman argument, and I have stated the case quite accurately.

Sorry, particularly in the case of DNA, you have managed to state the case most inaccurately.

Occam's Razor; the simplest explanation is most likely the correct explanation. Overwhelming evidence of non-mormon settlement and habitation of the Americas - or the total lack of evidence of bom culture, documented only in a book of highly questionable authenticity written by a man of highly questionable character.........