Big Springs, MO (Near the Ozarks). Meldrum believes this to be the Waters of Mormon. You'll have to watch/buy his DVD to see how he comes to that conclusion.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
DNA Evidence: The Book of Mormon IS True
I know that a few years ago an anti-mormon video came out saying that the Book of Mormon isn't true because there is no DNA evidence of people coming from the Middle East (European-type DNA). Well, their argument was premature. I just watched a video tonight that completely blew me out of the water. It was a 4-hour documentary about the DNA evidence that the Nephites really DID exist. The man who presented the material, Rodney Meldrum, gave a very compelling argument that the BOM lands were actually here in the US, and the Indian tribes that Joseph Smith was commanded to send men to preach to were the actual descendants of the Lamanites. If you read about the Hopewell Indians, you see that they existed about 200 BC and mysteriously disappeared in 400 a.d. He gives countless evidence supporting his theory. It made so much sense. He uses a lot of scriptural evidence from the BOM, as well as what Joseph Smith said. I'm not saying that it's true what he says, but his theory made more sense to me than any of the Mesoamerican theories. If his theory is correct, the river Sidon is the Mississippi river, and the Narrow Neck of Land, as mentioned in the BOM would be up by the Great Lakes, between Lake Eerie and Lake Ontario. So maybe there is only one Hill Cumorah after all. He backs up all his data with scriptures, scientific discoveries and data, and with what Joseph Smith said. Read his FAQ's, and come to your own conclusions. 
Big Springs, MO (Near the Ozarks). Meldrum believes this to be the Waters of Mormon. You'll have to watch/buy his DVD to see how he comes to that conclusion.
Big Springs, MO (Near the Ozarks). Meldrum believes this to be the Waters of Mormon. You'll have to watch/buy his DVD to see how he comes to that conclusion.
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I guess the problem here is that FARMS and FAIR and the official church website have posted essays against Wayne May's and Rod Meldrum's North American geography theory. Both FARMS, and FAIR advance a limited geography theory which is endorsed by the official LDS Church website.
http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/commentary/dna-and-the-book-of-mormon
Personally I agree with you. Even if Rod Meldrum is getting the DNA science wrong. The North American geography is at least closer to the actual statements by Joseph Smith.
Joseph Smith also stated that The Book of Mormon happened in Central America.
"Joseph Smith marked with his cane in the sand the track the saints would take to the Rocky Mountains...described the valley of the Great Salt Lake just as though he had lived there...said we should make stations all the way to New and Old Mexico until we crossed the Isthmus of Teohuantipec and get back to the place where the covenant was broke by the Nephites. Spoke of the great Temple in Central America unifinished...This river was situated by the River Copan, anciently called the River of Nephi" (Diary of Charles Lloyd Walker, 2:524-525)
He said in a letter to Bishop Bernhisel about a book written by John Lloyd Stephens and Fredrick Catherwood on their travels and study of Mesoamerica that ""unfolds & developes many things that are of great importance to this generation & corresponds with & supports the testimony of the Book of Mormon; I have read the volumes with the greatest interest & pleasure & must say that of all histories that have been written pertaining to the antiquities of this country it is the most correct luminous & comprihensive"
We also have several statements in the Times and Seasons and others which also say the same thing, that The Book of Mormon happened in Central America.
If a geography was revealed to Joseph Smith, then he did not make it known to the rest of the Church, and even his close associates believed in a Central American setting. Was this revelation? I doubt it, but it does show that Joseph Smith did not teach a North American Setting only. Towards the end of his life, it seems he embraced a Mesoamerican setting.
I'd recommend FAIRs review of his work which can be found here:http://www.fairlds.org/DNA_Evidence_for_Book_of_Mormon_Geography/
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