DNA and the book of mormons

DNA research and Mormon scholars changing basic beliefs
By Patty Henetz, Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — Plant geneticist Simon Southerton was a Mormon bishop in Brisbane, Australia when he woke up the morning of Aug. 3, 1998 to the shattering conclusion that his knowledge of science made it impossible for him to believe any longer in the Book of Mormon.
Two years later he started writing Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA and the Mormon Church, published by Signature Books and due in ctores next month. Along the way, he found a world of scholarship that has led him to conclude The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints belief is changing, but not through prophesy and revelation.

Rather, Southerton sees a behind-the-scenes revolution led by a small group of Brigham Young University scholars and their critics who are reinterpreting fundamental teachings of the Book of Mormon in light of DNA research findings. Along the way, he says, these apologist scholars, with the apparent blessing of church leadership, are contradicting church teachings about the origins of American Indians and Polynesians.

"You've got Mormon apologists in their own publications rejecting what prophets have been saying for decades. This becomes very troubling for ordinary members of the church," Southerton said.

And while the work of the BYU apologists — the term means those who speak or write in defense of something — remains confined largely to intellectual circles, some church members who have always understood themselves in light of Mormon teachings about the people known as Lamanites are suffering identity crises.

"It's very difficult. It is almost traumatizing," said Jose Aloayza, a Midvale attorney who likened facing this new reality to staring into a spiritual abyss.

"It's that serious, that real," said Aloayza, a Peruvian native born into the church and still a member. "I'm almost here feeling I need an apology. Our prophets should have known better. That's the feeling I get."
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[Kyzertec]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? DNA? Are you kidding me? That's the best you've got?  The Lamanites were cursed by god. Do you not think that god has the power the alter someones DNA? Wouldn't he have had to? DNA is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. It stores genetic traits. Many of these traits were altered when God cursed them. So wouldn't the DNA have been altered as well?

[theTruthNotLies]

Did I hear someone saying BRAINWASHED?? hahahahha

[BigLon]

Finding out about the DNA is what started my quest in wanting to know the REAL truth, and eventually OUT of that cult.

TRUTH is TRUTH,

and we should not believe in something strickly because we want to, or because we were raised up being taught these lies.

[CounterCultureLives]

@Kyzertec So, "God" altered the DNA of the Lamanites......... to look like the DNA of the Asiatic Mongolians who migrated across The Bering Straits. The Asiatic Mongolians were dark skinned before they ever migrated over here. Shoots the whole "Laman cursed with dark skin" fable all to hell.

[pepstuge]

brainwashed indeed. if mormons have the true religion. then i don't want to go to heaven

:)

[IExposeMormonism]

I posted "Joseph Smith should Have known better". Using the 1830 and '35 editions of "American Antiquities...." I show 30+ pages of Champollion. There were 25,000 copies of this book sold in 1835. I have 2nd and 5th ed. 5th ed says "25,000". Well, Joe couldn't read too well, which explains Volumes! I Think some Freemasons may have known Joe had screwed the pooch with the Abraham Papyrus. Champollion had been around for over 10 years.

[llevijr]

I think He (JS) came from the planet Kriptonite where he obtained X ray vision from Superman's 33 wives or something....

I recon they all got X ray vision so they tell which home to door knock and who's home, and when they run out of energy they quickly find a temple to regenerate...

I recon they bought there bikes off E.T. quike-mart superstore on the moon and bike to the moon and back with E.T reading the B.O.M on the handle bar

XD hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrRRRR...p­raise the lord

[exmoagogo]

Kyzertec's logic is designed to insulate his own mind from the awful reality that Smith is a proven fraud. To change would be more difficult than to look silly.

With magical and evasive thinking like this it is no wonder Mormonism survives.