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Map showing the generally accepted model of human spread over the world. Numbers indicate years before present.The indigenous peoples of the Americas are held by modern scientists to descend from the Paleo-Indians, who migrated from North Asia to Alaska via the Beringia land bridge, and not from the Middle East as claimed by the Book of Mormon.
Ugo A. Perego is a population geneticist and Mormon apologist whose main focuses of study have been the origins of Native Americans and the DNA of Joseph Smith, among others. Perego is also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .
The book uses genetic evidence to examine the historical accuracy of the Book of Mormon and related claims about the Lamanite people. Southerton was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), having converted to the church at age 10; [3] as an adult, he was a Mormon missionary in Melbourne and a bishop in ...
The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, first published in 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. [1] [2] The book is one of the earliest and most well-known unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement.
"DNA and the Book of Mormon: Various media outlets", Newsroom, LDS Church, 11 November 2003, archived from the original on 2006-02-06 — response by the LDS Church after Murphy's 2002 essay in American Apocrypha: More Essays on the Book of Mormon "DNA and the Book of Mormon", Newsroom, LDS Church, 16 February 2006 — press release by the LDS ...
How Rare a Possession is a 64-minute film produced by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It depicts the conversion stories of Parley P. Pratt, a church leader in the 19th century, and Vincenzo di Francesca, an Italian pastor in the 20th century, who both join the church after studying the Book of Mormon.
An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book and FARMS. ISBN 0-87747-608-X.. Southerton, Simon G (2004). Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA and the Mormon Church. Salt Lake City: Signature Books. ISBN 1-56085-181-3.. Tvedtnes, John A (2000). "Shades of Darkness". FARMS Review of Books. 12 (2).
The Tanners, who are ex-Mormon, [2]: 38 printed original versions of early Mormon writings and scripture in which they annotated and highlighted doctrinal changes, such as the rejection of Brigham Young's "Adam–God doctrine". They jointly published more than 40 books about many aspects of the LDS Church, primarily its history.