[DanielLongo]

I just did. Look it up. There is DNA evidence as well as archaeological evidence, respectively. I'm not going to fill a blog with research papers. If you are too lazy to look it up yourself, I can't help you. There is too much material for three line snipes. You asked. I have told you. The rest is up to you. Now, after having explored it (or while exploring it) ask any question you like. I can't have a conversation with someone who knows nothing of the topics.

[svcw]

You mean like this:
Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites, Iron Rod key chains, Captain Moroni action figures, Seven Habits of Highly Effective Poorly Written Books… All priestcraft.

[ejonesie22]

I have been researching it, indeed my field was American History for many years and I have some archaeological background as well. There is no, I repeat no physical evidence for the existence of any of the Nephites or other great civilizations exclusively mentioned in the BOM, no statues, no buildings or even building stones, no weapons not even shards of pottery. Any evidence claimed is readily and more easily explained using factual analysis, not fairy tales disguised as science. Occam's Razor at work.

At best the BOM is a clever mixing of several traditions and histories. Even a devout Mormon like Thomas Ferguson could find nothing, and he has not been alone in that, both archaeologically or in Genetic Science.

The DNA evidence is equally as thin, the idea of various human migrations to the new world is a continuing field of study, but any DNA links can be explained my simple migrations, and do not provide equal evidence of a massive civilization that should have numerous ruins and mentions in the oral histories of the Native American people.

Grasping at other cultures as proof is tacky, but expected. You should have snagged the Incans or Mayans, their ruins still stand, and you could lay claim to their "ancestors", the 12 Colonies of man from Battlestar Galactica. After all it is a modern fairy tale as well...

[Elsie]

There is DNA evidence as well as archaeological evidence, respectively.

You are RIGHT!

And the 'evidence' PROVES that the LDS claims are bogus!