The Burr in the Burgh

Here is another good article debunking the Mormon myth that Israelites emigrated to the Americas thousands of years ago. The DNA evidence does not support this foundational claim of the Book of Mormon.

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As John Warwick Montgomery has said, faith must be founded on fact. If the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus did not take place historically, then our Christian faith would be less than worthless.

What if a foundational tenet of your religious faith is that the Native Americans are descended from a lost tribe of Israel and extensive DNA tests have proved that Native Americans originated in Asia, not the Middle East? This is the crisis now facing Mormonism.

See here and here.