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How Kennewick Man has Impaled Rodney Meldrum’s Heartlanders

Introduction In July 1996, the skeleton of an ancient Native American washed out of the banks of the Columbia River in Kennewick Washington. Radiocarbon dating of a well preserved finger bone revealed the remains, now known as Kennewick Man or the Ancient One, were well over 8,000 years old. When Kennewick Man’s genome was published in 2015, it was revealed he carried a version of the mitochondrial X2a lineage from which all modern Native American X2a lineages descend. Kennewick Man’s age, possession of X2a and the discovery of a very ancient stone age spearpoint in his pelvis, completely exposed the false claims of Mormon pseudoscientists who claim X2a DNA found in some Native Americans is Semitic. Rodney Meldrum is the founder of the Heartlanders, a collection of young earth creationists who argue the events of the Book of Mormon took place in the heartland of North America. For over 16 years Meldrum has been claiming that mtDNA X2a, found in some indigenous tribes of North America, ...
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๐—Ÿ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—น๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐—ฝ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ก๐—” ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ฎ

For decades, Mormon scholars at Brigham Young University have believed the Semitic Nephite civilisation and the Maya civilisation were one and the same. According to these apologists, archaeological ruins throughout Mesoamerica bear witness to this claim. Preeminent LDS apologist, John Sorenson, has found hundreds of weak parallels between the Maya and the Nephites, and prominent Mormon apologists Daniel Peterson, Terryl Givens and Richard Bushman have praised Sorenson's Maya research from the rooftops. Meanwhile, Michael Coe, a leading scientific expert on the Maya, has said these claims are wishful thinking. ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐™›๐™–๐™˜๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ง ๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ, ๐™–๐™—๐™จ๐™ค๐™ก๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ, ๐™๐™–๐™จ ๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ฃ ๐™จ๐™๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™ฃ ๐™ช๐™ฅ ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฎ ๐™‰๐™š๐™ฌ ๐™’๐™ค๐™ง๐™ก๐™™ ๐™š๐™ญ๐™˜๐™–๐™ซ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ž๐™˜๐™ ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ก๐™™ ๐™จ๐™ช๐™œ๐™œ๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™– ๐™™๐™ž๐™จ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™จ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š ๐™ค๐™—๐™จ๐™š๐™ง๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐˜ฝ๐™ค๐™ค๐™  ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ˆ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ข๐™ค๐™ฃ, ๐™–๐™จ ๐™˜๐™ก๐™–๐™ž๐™ข๐™š๐™™ ๐™—๐™ฎ ๐™…๐™ค๐™จ๐™š๐™ฅ๐™ ๐™Ž...

๐— ๐˜† “๐—Ÿ๐——๐—ฆ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜„๐˜๐—ต” ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ฒ

“If you get on a hobby horse it will ride you right out of the Church.” President Heber J. Grant I rode a DNA hobby horse out of the Mormon Church in 1998, after I discovered Native Americans and Polynesians have no ancient Jewish ancestry. Zilch. I soon realised the Book of Mormon was fiction, so I saddled up. Another hobby horse I have enjoyed riding since my epiphany, is studying church membership data. I enjoy tracking the decline of the LDS Church. The church does enormous damage to many mixed faith families (over 85% of the church) so the smaller the church, the fewer families are damaged, and I feel good about that. This post is for those of you who would like a ride on my new hobby horse. First up, it’s important to remember, just as it has hidden unsavoury parts of its history, the Mormon Church hides unfavourable membership data. The leaders have known since around 1998 that the church was struggling, and right now they know the church is effectively shrinking globall...

Native American DNA reveals they are descended from Asian ancestors

The Americas were the last continents colonized by humans and the nature and timing of this colonization has been the subject of intense scientific research for over a century. The Mormon Church claims special knowledge within this field of scientific research. Most Mormons believe that native people in the Americas and Polynesia are largely (or at least partly) descended from Israelites. These views are largely based on the sacred writings Mormons possess, in particular the Book of Mormon, and numerous statements by church leaders, including all of its prophets, over many decades. As recently as  March 2013 native Central American Mormons from Honduras were reassured by an apostle that they are the descendants of father Lehi, an Israelite who the Book of Mormon claims sailed to the Americas in 600BC. Scientists studying Native American populations see no cultural or genetic connection between Old and New World populations. There is a broad consensus view among archaeolog...