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*Michael F. Whiting, “DNA and the Book of Mormon: A Phylogenetic Perspective,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 1 (2003): 28, 31. {{link|url=http://mi.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=12&num=1&id=311}} | *Michael F. Whiting, “DNA and the Book of Mormon: A Phylogenetic Perspective,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 12, no. 1 (2003): 28, 31. {{link|url=http://mi.byu.edu/publications/jbms/?vol=12&num=1&id=311}} | ||
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+ | *The author notes that others were "prophetically precluded" from inhabiting the land occupied by Lehi's people. He cites | ||
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+ | And behold, it is wisdom that ''this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations''; for behold, many nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for an inheritance. 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'' . . . and there shall be none to molest them, nor to take away the land of their inheritance; and they shall dwell safely forever. {{s|2|Nephi|1|8-9}} | ||
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+ | *The author quotes from 2 Nephi. Note that there are several uses of the word "land" in the passage: | ||
+ | #"this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations." | ||
+ | #"those whom the Lord God shall bring out of the land of Jerusalem." | ||
+ | *The "land of Jerusalem" is a very small geographical area, yet Lehi's promised land is completely undefined in scope. The author applies the term "land" to mean the entire North and South American landmass. Is it really reasonable to assume that there would be "no place for an inheritance" for Lehi's people if anyone else was inhabiting the America's at the time? | ||
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+ | *2 Ne. 1:8–9; see also John C. Kunich, “Multiply Exceedingly: Book of Mormon Population Sizes,” ''New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology'', ed. Brent Lee Metcalfe (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, | ||
+ | 1993), 261–62. | ||
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If we grant that the global colonization hypothesis is the correct lineage history...the above hypothesis is indeed incorrect. To this point all we have shown is that the global colonization hypothesis appears falsified by current genetic evidence. But is the global colonization hypothesis the only hypothesis emerging from the Book of Mormon? This is the crux of the matter....if the above description of the lineage history in the Book of Mormon is oversimplified, then these genetic results demonstrate only that this oversimplified view does not appear correct. But Book of Mormon scholars have been writing about certain complicating factors for decades, so this conclusion about oversimplification really comes as no surprise. (emphasis added)
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And behold, it is wisdom that this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations; for behold, many nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for an inheritance. 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 . . . and there shall be none to molest them, nor to take away the land of their inheritance; and they shall dwell safely forever. 2 Nephi 1:8-9
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