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First, let me say that I have absolutely no problem with the theory that early migrations across a Bering Straits land bridge produced much of the historical DNA of the Americas. I’m perfectly fine with that idea. I realize that I’m supposed to hate and fear science — a number of people who don’t know me have informed me that I do — but, try as I might, I just can’t.
Nor do I imagine that the amendment of the Bering Straits theory, or even its entire collapse, would somehow prove the Book of Mormon true.
(I say such obvious things in an effort to head off some of my anonymous internet critics, who delight in portraying me as having the intelligence of a rather dim fruit bat and who routinely exhibit hostile and absurd caricatures of my views as proof of their judgment. It won’t, I suspect, do much good.)
But my general impression is that there’s still a whole lot that we don’t know about the peopling of the Western Hemisphere, and this article seems to illustrate that:
Posted from Richmond, Virginia
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