Mormons and DNA - Battle, JOFMM Spring 2004

One of Mormonism’s key doctrines is under increasing attack,
and the coup de grace may now have been delivered. The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints teaches that all the Native American
tribes are descended from a Jewish family who came to these
uninhabited continents in the sixth century before Christ. Here
Christ himself visited them after his resurrection. For years scientists
have been questioning this belief, and now DNA evidence
demonstrates conclusively that this belief is false.
The LDS version of ancient American history
In 1830 Joseph Smith published his Book of Mormon. He
claimed that it was a divinely guided translation of golden tablets
written in an Egyptian dialect. These tablets, he claimed, were written
some 1,400 years earlier by a man named Mormon and completed
by his son Moroni...