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==Question: Was the Limited Geography model created in response to DNA claims?== | ==Question: Was the Limited Geography model created in response to DNA claims?== | ||
===The Limited Geography Model was introduced in 1927, many years before DNA claims=== | ===The Limited Geography Model was introduced in 1927, many years before DNA claims=== | ||
− | Was the Limited Geography model created in respond to DNA claims? The answer is no. The idea that Lehi's party entered a larger, pre-existing New World population was introduced as early as 1927, well before the Book of Mormon was being challenged on issues related to DNA. <ref>Janne M Sjodahl, ''An Introduction to the Study of the Book of Mormon'' | + | Was the Limited Geography model created in respond to DNA claims? The answer is no. The idea that Lehi's party entered a larger, pre-existing New World population was introduced as early as 1927, well before the Book of Mormon was being challenged on issues related to DNA. <ref>Janne M Sjodahl, ''An Introduction to the Study of the Book of Mormon'' (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1927).</ref> Limited Geography Models in General have been present since at least 10 years before that. |
An examination of both Part 1 and Part 2 of John Sorenson's 1984 ''Ensign'' articles quickly shows that they do not even contain the term "DNA". The articles focus on anthropological and geographical topics which support the Limited Geography model. | An examination of both Part 1 and Part 2 of John Sorenson's 1984 ''Ensign'' articles quickly shows that they do not even contain the term "DNA". The articles focus on anthropological and geographical topics which support the Limited Geography model. | ||
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[[es:Pregunta: ¿Fue el modelo Limited Geografía creado en respuesta a las reclamaciones de ADN?]] | [[es:Pregunta: ¿Fue el modelo Limited Geografía creado en respuesta a las reclamaciones de ADN?]] | ||
[[pt:Pergunta: Foi o modelo de Geografia Limitada criada em resposta às reivindicações de DNA?]] | [[pt:Pergunta: Foi o modelo de Geografia Limitada criada em resposta às reivindicações de DNA?]] | ||
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Was the Limited Geography model created in respond to DNA claims? The answer is no. The idea that Lehi's party entered a larger, pre-existing New World population was introduced as early as 1927, well before the Book of Mormon was being challenged on issues related to DNA. [1] Limited Geography Models in General have been present since at least 10 years before that.
An examination of both Part 1 and Part 2 of John Sorenson's 1984 Ensign articles quickly shows that they do not even contain the term "DNA". The articles focus on anthropological and geographical topics which support the Limited Geography model.
I have said repeatedly that the correspondences in geography, history, and cultural patterns—large scale or micro-scale—between Mesoamerican cultures and the Book of Mormon peoples do not “prove” anything conclusively. Still, the fact that large numbers of such correspondences exist ought to register in the minds of truth-loving people. With this in mind, it is clearly misleading for a scholar—one of our own—to imply that there is no “important archaeological evidence” to support the Book of Mormon story “of Indian origins,” or for another to find it amusing to think that anyone would seriously try to compare the Book of Mormon with objective facts of historical importance. [2]
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