[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

ROFL!!!!

[Tainan]

Gentlemen...don your white lab coats and proceed forth...

[SeaHawkFan]

First axion of holes. When you are in one - stop digging!!!

[Alex Murphy]

FAIR has this disclaimer, albeit in tiny print, at the bottom of their home page:

FAIR is not owned, controlled by, or affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. All research and opinions provided on this site are the sole responsibility of FAIR and should not be interpreted as official statements of LDS doctrine, belief, or practice.

[plain talk]

Yes current Middle Eastern DNA may not be a perfect match for the applicable tribe from 2600 years. But it should be a closer match than current DNA from Asia shouldn’t it be - if the Mormon claims are correct? I don’t know much about this but in just reading this it looks like a weak case being presented by these Mormons. Where is THEIR DNA evidence or any evidence for that matter to back up their claims? Bizarre.

[humblegunner]

DNA samples taken from modern Native Americans do not match the DNA of modern inhabitants of the Middle East. Critics argue that this means the Book of Mormon's claim that Native Americans are descended from Lehi must be false

False claim, false book, false all around.

Precursor to Scientology really. Yep.

[wendy1946]

There’s basically no trace of any semblance of Middle East language, culture, architecture, or anything else in the Americas. If the conquistadors had found anything like that they’d have written it up and we’d know about it.

[flowerplough]

DNA attacks against the Book of Mormon account fail on numerous grounds, just like Global Warming has recently caused cooler winters.

[SENTINEL]

Paragon when you you learn ? You just posted one of the very easiest to debunk topics of all time on mromonism. THEY CHANGED THE INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF MORMON NOT 5 YEARS AGO BECAUSE THERE IS NO DNA LINK !!

The one-page introduction to the Book of Mormon, which gives a brief overview of its contents, was added in 1981 when the LDS Church released a revised text of the Book of Mormon. The introduction was written by Mormon Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, at the time considered to be one of the church’s most prominent theologians. The introduction stated, “After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are the principal ancestors of the American Indians.”

New editions published by the LDS Church, however, will no longer include the phrase “principal ancestors.” They instead will read that the Lamanites are “among” the ancestors of the American Indian. This new alteration has already appeared in copies of the Book of Mormon published by Doubleday.

[doc1019]

DNA has brought more then one charlatan to justice.

[greyfoxx39]

Epitome of futility Ping

[Tennessee Nana]

Any word yet on the curse of Cain folks getting new DNA ???

You know that nice “white and delightsome” type...

[ejonesie22]

Filed in the fiction section...

[ejonesie22]

Filed in the fiction section...

[SZonian]

Same old regurgitated propaganda, been addressed thousands of times before. Here are some haystacks for you to read through to find where it’s been addressed. If you’re really interested in the truth that is.

http://www.mormoncurtain.com/topic_dna.html

http://www.godandscience.org/cults/dna.html

http://www.irr.org/MIT/southerton-response.html

http://www.ils.unc.edu/~unsworth/mormon/dna.html

http://signaturebooks.com/2010/06/answers-to-apologetic-claims-about-dna-and-the-book-of-mormon/

http://www.irr.org/mit/lamanites-dna-bom.html

[Colofornian]

From the article: What about the Jaredites?

Ejonesie: Mormon scholarship [post #30]

Well, I looked @ my vast dozens-upon-dozens of books in my Mormon book library & files & e-files about the Jaredites...searching for the "best" Jaredite Mormon scholarship I could find.

I think I found it: "The people didn't want to cross the ocean in the dark, so the Brother of Jared made 16 clear stones and asked God to make them shine."

Source: My First Book of Mormon Stories retold by Deanna Draper Buck, Mormon church owned Deseret Book Company, 1998, 30th page.

Now, I searched within this primer in vain for footnotes that would further explain the above -- how Jared's brother created ("made") stones...[Boy, & here I must have been some backwoods bumpkin to actually think God was the Creator of stones & rocks & the like!]

And so, I was "forced" to go back to read the Book of Mormon [which is just about the right word you need for opening a BoM -- "forced"]...specifically Ether 2 -- to discover the sequence of how these shiny rocks came to be. What I discovered is that initially the Mormon god -- as He instructed them in constructing this vessel -- forgot all about the need for not only lights but ventilation as well!

So you see. I'm not the only country bumpkin on this! The Mormon god was this bumbling afterthought Mormon god on the design of these barges as well!

[bigoil]

There sure as HECK had better be some smores and Hot Tea at the end of this thread.

[rwoodward]

HELLOO!! The people who live in Egypt right now are not the same people who lived there thousands of years ago.