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| + | |sublink1=Response to claim: 180 - Most Mormons have had their ancestors posthumously "baptized into the Mormon faith" | ||
| + | |sublink2=Response to claim: 181 - FARMS has downplayed the potential of James Sorenson's "global molecular genealogy project" | ||
| + | |sublink3=Response to claim: 181 - The Molecular Genealogy Foundation may reveal disconcerting "surprises" in LDS family trees that trace back to "well known polygamists" in the early church | ||
| + | |sublink4=Response to claim: 184 - The Indian Student Placement Program was an attempt to turn them "white and delightsome" | ||
| + | |sublink5=Response to claim: 184 - "Mormon folklore" claims that Native Americans and Polynesians carry a curse based upon "misdeeds on the part of their ancestors" | ||
| + | |sublink6=Response to claim: 185 - LDS scholars experienced in DNA research have spoken only to Mormon audiences | ||
| + | |sublink7=Response to claim: 185-186 - In response to the DNA issue, the Church linked to an article written by Jeff Lindsey, "a chemical engineer with no professional training in DNA research" | ||
| + | |sublink8=Response to claim: 186 - LDS scientists have responded to DNA findings by claiming that it would be improbable to find evidence of an Israelite presence in the Americas | ||
| + | |sublink9=Response to claim: 186 - LDS writers claim that the presence of other people in the Americas actually supports "careful readings of the Book of Mormon" | ||
| + | |sublink10=Response to claim: 186 - LDS scholars "have come to the conclusion" that Book of Mormon populations comprised a very small part of a much larger group of people on the continent | ||
| + | |sublink11=Response to claim: 187 - LDS suggest that it would impossible to use DNA technology to identify a small local colony of individuals | ||
| + | |sublink12=Response to claim: 188 - The author claims that it is not likely that "founders effect" or "genetic drift" would "completely frustrate the identification of Israelite DNA in the Americas" | ||
| + | |sublink13=Response to claim: 188 - The author claims that Book of Mormon states that the Lehite/Mulekite groups were both descended from Jewish ancestors | ||
| + | |sublink14=Response to claim: 189 - The author claims that the ancestry of Israelites living today will all "meet at the Caucasian branch of the human family tree" | ||
| + | |sublink15=Response to claim: 190 - The Lemba prove that it is possible to detect Middle Eastern genes in a foreign environment | ||
| + | |sublink16=Response to claim: 190 - Church leaders have consistently associated Lamanites with Central America | ||
| + | |sublink17=Response to claim: 191 - The Mayan Empire is claimed to considered by Mormons to the closest to the people of the Book of Mormon | ||
| + | |sublink18=Response to claim: 191 - There is too much genetic variation in the X lineage to account for Book of Mormon people to have arrived as recently as 2600 years ago | ||
| + | |sublink19=Response to claim: 192 - LDS writers have overlooked the fact that Mitochondrial DNA research shows that 99.6% of Native Americans migrated to the American continent thousands of years before the Israelites came into existence | ||
| + | |sublink20=Response to claim: 192 - The remaining 0.4% is likely the result of genetic mixture with people who came to the New World after Columbus | ||
| + | |sublink21=Response to claim: 193 - LDS scholars claim that the impact of Book of Mormon immigrants to the New World made an impact "so small that they barely mattered" | ||
| + | |sublink22=Response to claim: 193 - A great number of Native Americans are now assumed to have been absorbed into New World Israelite civilizations | ||
| + | |sublink23=Response to claim: 193 - "Other people" in the Book of Mormon have "remained invisible" to most readers | ||
| + | |sublink24=Response to claim: 193-194 - "Gentiles who inhabited the Americas before, during and after the Book of Mormon period are potential Lamanites" | ||
| + | |sublink25=Response to claim: 194 - Mormons have "traditionally thought" that any Asian presence in the New World occurred after the Book of Mormon period | ||
| + | |sublink26=Response to claim: 195- The children of Lehi were to be "kept from all other nations, that they may possess this land unto themselves" | ||
| + | |sublink27=Response to claim: 195 - There are no explicit references to non-Israelites living near the Lehites or Jaredites | ||
| + | |sublink28=Response to claim: 195 - Five hundred years after their arrival, groups were still identified as having descended from Laman, Lemuel, Ishmael, etc | ||
| + | |sublink29=Response to claim: 196 - Familial terms used in the Book of Mormon imply a genetic link | ||
| + | |sublink30=Response to claim: 197 - Joseph Smith and other leaders taught that the Book of Mormon described the origins of the Indians in the western hemisphere | ||
| + | |sublink31=Response to claim: 197 - Mormons "tend to be hazy" regarding what past Church leaders have said regarding geography | ||
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Contents
Index to claims made in Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church
| A FAIR Analysis of: Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church A work by author: Dr. Simon G. Southerton
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This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within the FAIR Wiki. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible.