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I keep coming to the conclusion that even if there was a scientific consensus that everything about the Book of Mormon was true, the church would still be swirling the drain in terms of membership. Not only are the truth claims of the Book of Mormon dubious at best, the church is fundamentally broken and it does not look like it is going to be getting better anytime soon.

It's too bad Ugo doesn't have ANY nonMormon scientists who agree with him in regards to the DNA issues in the BoM..

You are exactly correct! Thankyou!

FairMormon, Book of Mormon Central, The Interpreter Foundation all private Charitable 501(c)(3)s begging for your tax-free money to promote the false Two-Cumorah Mesoamerica Geography Theory which originated in the 1920s from the apostate RLDS Church. Here's a link to a 1919 book opened to their map: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t39z9z24w;view=2up;seq=34;skin=mobile Ugo Perego is just making up excuses for this false theory because he's not intelligent enough to know or support the truth. This is a RLDS site with articles supporting the Two-Cumorah Mesoamerica Theory: www.bomf.org/ This is a RLDS "Quetzal Codex" publication ripping on Rod Meldrum, just like Ugo Perego and the three organizations also do: nebula.wsimg.com/e412bb5fbf52e95401900043cb65b36c?AccessKeyId=AA525AED21BB7CA23BE6&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 The second page of this 2-page article has the same map from the 1919 book: nebula.wsimg.com/7bb9e706664eb88ffcc243bf714261ca?AccessKeyId=AA525AED21BB7CA23BE6&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 This is a RLDS or CofC 501(c)(3) called the "Hill Cumorah Expedition Team" www.hceti.org noting their expeditions to Southern Mexico to a hill they claim is the Hill Cumorah. In other words, Ugo Perego is a waste of your time as he and FairMormon are promoting a Book of Mormon Geography lie.

I would like to see the giants dna that was found in northeastern US! That would be interesting to see

D&C 77... This earth has a temporal existence of 7000 years" .. I believe scripture... Everywhere I see this guy he jabs Rod!!! Sick..

I totally respect Ugo Perego as a geneticist. He does good work. He would agree that there is no existing DNA evidence to support the BoM narrative. His explanation for that fact is that the BoM people were NOT alone upon arrival. There is overwhelming scientific evidence to support this conclusion. His explanation is that the Lehite DNA was swallowed up by a much larger population. This makes tons of sense as long as the narrative supports that both migrations (the Jaredites and Lehites) were small populations among much larger existing populations. The problem with this narrative is that the BoM doesn't support this theory. At all. In 2 Ne 1, it is extremely clear that Lehi is prophesying of America (he refers to the "land of liberty"). In verse 8 it says "And behold, it is wisdom that this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations" and in verse 9 it says "that they may possess this land unto themselves". In other words, it says that the Lehite expedition was alone upon arrival. Lehi prophesies of the new world invasion in verse 11 "Yea, he will bring other nations unto them, and he will give unto them power, and he will take away from them the lands of their possessions, and he will cause them to be scattered and smitten." There is not a single mention in the BoM of any group of people that is not of Jewish origin. In fact, every single lineage mentioned in the BoM (and there are a lot), is of Jewish origin. And why not? Wouldn't it be inspiring to hear about how they had to teach these indigenous Americans how to speak their language or how they converted them? It would be fascinating to learn about how they shared their knowledge of new world technology and agriculture. At least it would be worth a sentence or two here or there right? Throughout church history, it was always believed that ALL Indians were descendants of Lehi. Prophets taught this. This narrative only began to shift when scientific evidence strongly suggested otherwise. And finally when DNA studies were conclusive that Indians originated from Asia, the BoM intro was changed. It used to say that the people of the BoM were the "principal ancestors" of the American Indians. Now it just says that they are "among the ancestors" of the American Indians.

I see what this informative lecture accomplishes: learning that DNA is relatively useless after the 5th generation, unless you have the ideal situations. It does show that the study of DNA of Meso-Americans vs. Israelis failed and it wasn't really the ideal situation, though Anti-Mormons rejoiced. On the other hand, we shouldn't take much stock in the study of North American tribes vs. Israeli DNA, though it showed some correlation. Our Milanese friend, Dr. Perego, said that he hoped Meldrum has more evidence for the Heartland model than just DNA. Well Rod Meldrum does. Anyway, interesting lecture, despite the jab at President Trump. I'm happy that Donald Trump is our president, BTW.

He needed to find a reason to leave the church ...12:38 typical FairMormon ..