\u201c3 Distinguished Linguists Examine Mysterious Origin of Native Americans\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not claiming \u2014 though some will inevitably (even after this disavowal) maintain\u00a0that I am \u2014 that this somehow proves the Book of Mormon true. \u00a0But, if the article is accurate, it certainly suggests that the simple, unambiguous, settled\u00a0story that some have been telling, and that some have been saying destroys the Book of Mormon, isn\u2019t nearly as cut-and-dried as they had hoped.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 I would like to thank Charles Henderson for having brought this intriguing article to my attention: \u00a0 \u201c3 Distinguished Linguists Examine Mysterious Origin of Native Americans\u201d \u00a0 I\u2019m not claiming \u2014 though some will inevitably (even after this disavowal) maintain\u00a0that I am \u2014 that this somehow proves the Book of Mormon true. \u00a0But, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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