Re: [TruthTalk] DNA Evidence Discourages Mormons

[Blaine Borrowman]

Blaine:  The Indian languages all show traces of Hebrew, but are otherwise very different--what does that prove?  Just that 2500 yrs have gone by, and languages  change at a rapid pace.  The same with genetic similarities. It is called genetic drift.  Ho hum.   Now let's consider the effects of genetic drift on a population. In the short term, over a few generations, we would expect allele frequencies to increase and decrease in a random, unpredictable way, as a result of genetic drift. In the longer term, the main result of genetic drift is loss of genetic variation. This occurs because over time, at random, there will be a generation in which one allele (which has become rare by chance) will not get passed at all to the next generation. Given enough time, this will always be the effect of genetic drift -- by chance, alleles will be lost. The smaller the population, since genetic drift has a stronger effect in small populations, the more quickly genetic variation will be lost. Genetic drift also results in different populations becoming genetically different from each other because by chance, different alleles will become fixed in different populations. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kevin Deegan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] DNA Evidence Discourages Mormons NO COMMENT! Judy Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you Mormon boys aware of this?   MORMONS LEAVE BECAUSE OF DNA The following is from Calvary Contender, March 2004: �Recent DNA evidence questioning the accuracy of Mormon history is providing an open door to evangelism of Mormons. The Book of Mormon describes how Israelites emigrated to the Americas 2,600 years ago, with the now extinct Lamanites and Nephites becoming the ancestors of American Indians. But anthropologists say there is no match of Jewish DNA with that of American Indians. An inaccurate Book of Mormon creates questions about the foundation of Mormon teaching (2/04 Christianity Today). Reportedly about 300 people have left Mormonism partly because of evidence presented from interviewing eight scientists including a Mormon scholar.� Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you�re looking for faster.