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Date: October 03, 2018 05:41PM
I "crossed swords" with Rodney Meldrum on one blogsite and sent Simon Southerton a heads-up. I would characterize Simon's reply as "rhetorical blood atonement," seriously. Meldrum got particularly nasty when Simon addressed his "Creationist Views" and claimed the Earth was only 13,000 years old.
From Simon's blogsite:
http://simonsoutherton.blogspot.com/2013/09/meldrums-x-lineage-good.htmlHe's titled this one "The Good," and and the other two, "The Bad," and "The Ugly" can be referenced from links on Simon's site.
http://simonsoutherton.blogspot.com/2016/01/response-to-rodney-meldrums-incredible.html>>In the video Rodney Meldrum claims there is DNA evidence that proves the Book of Mormon is true. He boldly claims there is now concrete DNA evidence linking Native Americans to Jewish populations in the Middle East.
This is nonsense, of course. Native American DNA has been proven to have "arrived here" from Berengia from a population in the Siberia/Mongolia region.
>>Rodney Meldrum presents himself as a scientific authority who has worked on a university-level science textbook. The truth is Rodney Meldrum has no scientific qualifications and the unpublished textbook he was working on was a Creationist textbook masquerading as science. Meldrum entered the DNA apologetics arena in about 2003 after first learning of the Book of Mormon DNA issue.
>>In the video Meldrum claims that North American Indians from the Algonquin language group carry high proportions of Jewish mitochondrial DNA. This DNA carries five unique “markers” that only appear in Jewish populations. While not stated in the interview, the mitochondrial DNA Meldrum is referring to is lineage X2a. (Mitochondrial DNA is widely used by scientists to track related populations. It is passed from mothers to offspring, much like a molecular maiden name.)
As I've posted here numerous times, the oldest example of H2A in this hemisphere is that of "Kennewick Man," whose skeleton is 9,000 years old.I had the pleasure of e-mailing Simon with that information several years ago. DNA science hasn't changed in that time, honest.
I guess I would characterize this thread as a "Golden Oldie" someone decided to resurrect while board participation is down.