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Scientists Address LDS challenges
Addressing the Arguments Against the DNA Evidence
Haplogroup X

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Thomas W. Murphy, LDS Anthropologist
The Genes of Lehi

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Thomas W. Murphy, LDS Anthropologist

Limited Geography?

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Dr. Trent Stephens - biologist, active LDS member



Rebuttal to Limited Geography

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Thomas W. Murphy /  Dr. Simon Southerton
Another Hebrew Lineage?

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Thomas W. Murphy
Are Hebrews "Asians"?

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Thomas W. Murphy / Dr. David Glenn Smith
Additional Information about DNA & the Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon Story

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What is DNA Evidence?

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Thomas W. Murphy
The applicability of DNA to the Book of Mormon

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Thomas W. Murphy

The process of DNA testing

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Dr. Dennis O'Rourke

Research on the Origins of Native Americans

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Dr. Stephen L Whittington


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Dr. Dennis O'Rourke


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Dr. David Glenn Smith

Dealing with the evidence

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Gordon B. Hinckley / Thomas Murphy



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Dr. Simon Southerton, geneticist, LDS member

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Thomas W. Murphy

 

The DNA Dispute:
The top-ten challenges apologists use to discredit the DNA science.


Scientist Biography Briefs & CVs


a Thomas W. Murphy

Edmonds Community College where he was named 2000-2001 Advisor of the Year for his work with the Native American Students Association. The Dialogue Foundation awarded him the 1997 Best Article in Theology and Scripture for his examination of the sociological role of writing in the Book of Mormon, "Laban's Ghost: On Writing and Transgression," Dialogue 30 (Summer 1997), 105-127. He is the author of the first comprehensive analysis in print of the implications of genetic research for the Book of Mormon. His article, "Lamanite, Genesis, Genealogy, and Genetics," appears in American Apocrypha, edited by Dan Vogel and Brent Lee Metcalf (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2002) 47-77, and is available on the web at MormonScriptureStudies.Com.


http://www.edcc.edu/anthr/faculty.php?userID=tmurphy

a Dr. Simon Southerton

Publication:
http://www.signaturebooks.com/Losing.htm

Southerton's response to LDS critics of the DNA / Book of Mormon issue:
http://www.signaturebooks.com/excerpts/Losing2.htm

CV / Contact:
http://www.csiro.au/people/Simon.Southerton--ci_pubHist-1.html

a Dr. Randall Shortridge

Dr. Shortridge, PhD, is a molecular biologist at the University of Buffalo, New York.  He has also been a member of the LDS church. 

CV & Publications:
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~rds/

a Dr. Dennis H. O'Rourke

Dr. O'Rourke is a PhD in anthropology from the University of Kansas. He is currently a professor at the University of Utah. Dr. O'Rourke's main areas of research are population and evolutionary genetics, genetic epidemiology, quantitative methods, Native America, and Russia.

CV & Publications:
http://www.anthro.utah.edu/people/faculty/dennis-h.-orourke.html

a Dr. David Glenn Smith

Dr. David Glenn Smith is a PhD in anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Davis. His areas of expertise are in, genetic epidemiology, medical anthropology, population genetics, demography, genetics of non-human primates, and North America.

CV & Publications:
http://www.anthro.ucdavis.edu/~dgsmith/dgs.html

a Dr. Trent Stephens

Dr. Stephens is a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a professor at Idaho State University. Dr. Stephens specializes in anatomy, experimental embryology, and teratology. Dr. Stephens is also an active LDS member and is currently involved in research on DNA evidence and the Book of Mormon.

CV & Publications:
http://www.isu.edu/bios/Professors_Staff/stephens_t.shtml

a Dr. Stephen L. Whittington

Dr. Stephen L. Whittington is a PhD in anthropology from Penn State University. Dr. Whittington is a bio-archaeologist with a focus in Mesoamerican archaeology and human osteology. He is also a co-editor of the book Bones of the Maya: Studies of Ancient Skeletons, and is the director of the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine.

University Bio / Selected Publications:
http://www.wfu.edu/academics/anthropology/whittington.html

a Dr. John McLaughlin

Dr. McLaughlin, PhD, is a linguist at Utah State University, specializing in Native American languages.

Contact:
http://www.usu.edu/search/phonebook.cfm?personDetails=3974


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