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Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 9
Response to claims made in "Chapter 9: The Outcasts of Israel"
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Chapter 10 |
- Response to claim: 120 - We should expect the common culture, history and ancestry to be revealed in the genes of the lost 10 tribes and those of the kingdom of Judah if they are actually related
- Response to claim: 128-129 - The Lemba can be genetically tied to the line of Aaron
- Response to claim: 129 - In Mesoamerica, there is no genetic support for European lineages
The author(s) of Losing a Lost Tribe make(s) the following claim:
We should expect the common culture, history and ancestry to be revealed in the genes of the lost 10 tribes and those of the kingdom of Judah if they are actually related.
Author's sources: *No source given.
FAIR's Response
Response to claim: 128-129 - The Lemba can be genetically tied to the line of Aaron
The author(s) of Losing a Lost Tribe make(s) the following claim:
The Lemba can be genetically tied to the line of Aaron.
Author's sources: *Webber Ndoro, "Great Zimbabwe," Scientific American, Nov. 1997, 62-67.
- Tudor Parfitt, Journey to the Vanished City: The Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel, 1997.
- Thomas, et al., "Y Chromosomes Traveling South: The Cohen Modal Haplotype and the Origins of the Lemba 'Black Jews of Southern Africa'," American Journal of Human Genetics 66:674-86 (2000).
- Ezra 2꞉35
FAIR's Response
Fact checking results: The author has stated erroneous information or misinterpreted their sources
This is irrelevant for a Book of Mormon context. Only 2% of modern Jews can be identified by genetic testing.Response to claim: 129 - In Mesoamerica, there is no genetic support for European lineages
The author(s) of Losing a Lost Tribe make(s) the following claim:
In Mesoamerica, there is no genetic support for European lineages.
Author's sources: *No source given.