DNA and the Book of Mormon
DR. SOUTHERTON'S RESPONSE TO FARMS AND FAIR CLICK HERE FOR ... MIGRATIONS Losing a Lost Tribe Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church SIMON G. SOUTHERTON Paperback. 288 pages. / 1-56085-181-3/ $24.95 2 Nephi 1: 9 Wherefore, I, Lehi, have obtained a promise, that inasmuch as those whom the Lord God shall bring out of the land of Jerusalem shall keep his commandments, they shall prosper upon the face of this land; and they shall be kept from all other nations, that they may possess this land unto themselves. For the past 175 years, the Latter-day Saint (Mormon) church has taught that Native Americans and Polynesians are descended from ancient seafaring Israelites. Recent DNA research confirms what anthropologists have been saying for nearly as many years, that Native Americans are originally from Siberia and Polynesians from Southeast Asia. In the current volume, molecular biologist Simon Southerton explains the theology and the science and how the former is being reshaped by the latter. Simon G. Southerton is a senior research scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial | |
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