Scientists Address LDS challenges
Addressing the Arguments Against the DNA Evidence |
"Haplogroup X shows a connection between Israel and American Indians."
Thomas W. Murphy, LDS Anthropologist
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"We do not know exactly what the genes of Lehi and his family were, therefore we cannot prove that Native Americans are not his descendants."
Thomas W. Murphy, LDS Anthropologist
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"The historical account in the Book of Mormon happened on a small scale. Lehi and his family only made a small contribution to the gene pool of American Indians."
Dr. Trent Stephens - biologist, active LDS member
Thomas W. Murphy / Dr. Simon Southerton
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"Israel is on the Asian Continent, therefore Hebrews are Asians."
Thomas W. Murphy
Dr. David Glenn Smith
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"There is another group claiming they have a Hebrew lineage."
Thomas W. Murphy
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Additional Information about DNA & the Book of Mormon |
The Book of Mormon's history of Native Americans
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What is DNA Evidence?
Thomas W. Murphy |
The applicability of DNA to
the Book of Mormon
Thomas W. Murphy
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The process of DNA testing
Dr. Dennis O'Rourke
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The Research (origin of Native Americans)
Dr. Stephen L Whittington
Dr. Dennis O'Rourke
Dr. David Glenn Smith
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Dealing with the evidence
Dr. Simon Southerton, geneticist, LDS member
Thomas W. Murphy
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Scientist Biography Briefs & CVs
Thomas W. Murphy
Thomas W. Murphy chairs the anthropology department at 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.
Contact:
http://anthr.edcc.edu/contact.php
Publications:
http://faculty.edcc.edu/~tmurphy/publications.html
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Dr. Simon Southerton
Dr. Southerton is a molecular biologist from Canberra, Australia. His current research involves the molecular biology of flowering and wood development in eucalypts.He has a PhD from the University of Sydney. Dr. Southerton is also a former LDS bishop. He has published a book entitled Losing a Lost Tribe.
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.ffp.csiro.au/tigr/molecular/southerton.html |
 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/ |
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/orourke.html |
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
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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:
(No official CV/Publication list is currently available; some of his materials can be found in a web search of "Trent Stephens") |
 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
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Dr. John McLaughlin
Dr. McLaughlin, PhD, is a linguist at Utah State University, specializing in Native American languages.
CV:
http://english.usu.edu/Document/index.asp?Parent=642 |
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