Mormonism is "objectively false"

Mormons and their BookGiven what we now know about history and genetics, we can conclude without doubt that the literal history as presented in The Book of Mormon is objectively false. This notion clearly gets under people’s skin and smells vaguely of discrimination, but it is hardly biased to point out that Native American maternal DNA is 99.5 percent Asian-related and .5 percent European-related (meaning the claims of the LDS Church and Joseph Smith in this regard are incorrect). Not surprisingly, the scientific consensus is that this .5 percent has to do with Post Colonial interracial mixing (with the one possible exception of the Vikings).

There is not a single non-Mormon scientist in the world that I’m aware of that even entertains the notion that so much as a single Jew sailed over to America in 600 BC. Mormon archeological and historical claims are similarly without merit, lacking non-Mormon, objective verification. Smith himself was unable to produce the fabled “Golden Plates,” on which The Book of Mormon was ostensibly inscribed, to a skeptical audience--a move that should make believers in his word further question his legitimacy.

I’m not trying to argue this because I think Mormonism is wrong and some other religion is right. The truth is that, deep down at their core, all religions make spurious claims about reality. As I said in my earlier article, that is what makes all religions suspect. In this, Mormonism is hardly unique.Comment:  It's tough to respect a religion based on the premise of falsifying history--in this case, the history of Native Americans.