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Just so it is clear (seems to be a problem getting this fact), this article is from an LDS owned site.
I love the spin in the article. I can’t prove I am 45, you will just have to take my word for it, because you can’t prove I am not.
All of us, Jew and Christian, share an enemy who is eager to cut our throats.
There are a few people around here who just need to CHILL OUT!
But I'd give better odds on finding Middle Earth or Narnia than physical proof that the Book of Mormon is anything but the fantasies of one Joseph Smith.
To the indoctrinated mormon this must seem confusing. Throughout the history of mormonism the Amerindians were announced to be THE descendants of the hebraic origined Lamanites. Ash also glosses over that the DNA studies are confirmed by numerous other studies - anthropological and linguistic - which clearly show no hebraic/egyptian culture or influence at all on the Amerindians. Add to this the abysmal LACK of archaeological findings to support even the hail mary pass of the Limited Geography Theory (let alone its gross contradiction of the teachings of the prophets and church over the history of mormonism) - the proof becomes overwhelming - the book of mormon is a piece of fiction.
Mormon apologists make many claims as to the authencity of the bom story - yet these claims clash against each other. Here Ash is defending the LGT against popular mormon apologist Rodney Meldrum who is using the DNA to support the traditional N. American model. This is challenging BYU sponsored LGT theorist Sorenson, who holds that N. America could NOT have been part of the bom lands.
Alternative locations have also been put forth including multiple variations on the LGT and N. Am theories, Polynesia, Malaysia, Baja California and even Africa.
The classical mormon testimony is that the bom is 'true'. If it is true, then there should be no loss of archaelogical finding as well as related science to support the history it claims within its covers. Only fairy tales speak of fictional lands - just like the lands the bom talks about.
Who posted this thread then? :-)
Neither does DNA prove Christian writings so whats your point?