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Southerton Wrote about DNA and the Book of Mormon By David J. Olsen 17 July 2005 Six months after the LDS Church disciplined Grant Palmer for his views on the origins of Mormonism, another Mormon scholar faces excommunication. Simon Southerton, from Canberra, Australia, has been summoned to a July 31 disciplinary council. Southerton is the author of Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA and the Mormon Church. The book reviews DNA evidence supporting the view that native Americans are descended from Asians--a view that has been standard among scientists for many years. The scientific view stands in direct contradiction with the Introduction to the Book of Mormon, which states that the Israelites are "the principal ancestors of the American Indians." Thomas Murphy is another scholar who has argued that DNA evidence disproves LDS claims about the Israelite lineage of the native Americans. Murphy was threatened with excommunication in 2002, but that disciplinary council decided to postpone indefinitely any action against Murphy. See also: LDS Church Excommunicates DNA Author 
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