How does God change someones DNA?

Question

In a previous question, someone stated that God had changed DNA for the Mormons. Here is a series of questions related to this:

1) How exactly does God change someones DNA
2) Why would he change DNA for someone, but hasn't done anything else for anybody in thousands of years
3) Is this argument about "Changing DNA" the most absurd thing you've ever heard?
4) Does this crazy argument make you wonder what other absurdities the Mormon church has taught you?

BTW, In case you are wondering.. This IS in fact a real deal. It's not a rumor, not made up. So don't go there with your answers.

Here's a source that talks about it:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/lds_migr1.htm

Here's the Mormon Inc. Church trying to wash this under the rug:
http://www.fairlds.org/Book_of_Mormon/DNA_Studies_and_the_Book_of_Mormon.html

Annabella - why do you act like this is something I made up? Don't you check the facts? Or do you just go through life believing (or not believing) everything anybody tells you.

Answer 1

>>Simon G. Southerton, author of the book: "Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church" 11 believes that several passages from the Book of Mormon and statements by Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS, show that the Israelite immigrants to the new world found an uninhabited world when they arrived. He said: "In the entire 1,000-year period covered by the Book of Mormon, there is not one explicit reference to people outside the migratory groups that came from the Middle East."<<

Do you know WHY "In the entire 1000 year period of the Book of Mormon..." this was never mentioned?

Because the Book of Mormon is NOT a book of science, anthropology, or anything like that. It is ANOTHER TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST, and anything written in the Book of Mormon is about the gospel of Jesus Christ. Not a detailed history of who was ever in the western hemisphere etc. There isn't even mention of any specific area where the Lehites started their civilization. Any thing that says anything else is not of God, IMHO. Joseph Smith, smart as he was, didn't know everything.

Why didn't you post anything written by LDS scientists and doctors who are specialists in DNA and forensics. One talked about a study in Iceland, where over 100,000 residents of Iceland, who could trace their linage to one man and one woman 200some years ago, and had verifiable records of this. These Icelanders were tested and their common ancestry could ONLY be determined o be from about 150 years ago. Yet, as I said, there were verifiable official records of the ancestors of these people going back further than that, yet, the DNA didn't support this.

P.S. where in those statements wasthe one about God CHANGING someone's DNA? I never found it.

Answer 2

Hugh Nibley, the smartest man alive (he's dead now) created the bestest argument ever for anyone who questioned goofball mormon teachings: Confuse the daylights out the questioner. Concentrate on the minutiae of evidence of something entirely else that is almost similar, then draw the conclusion to fit the doctrine.

The Maxwell Institute (not named after Nibley) has published tons and tons of papers on the internet that tell the world that all the other scientists are evil, stupid, and don't know DNA from a hole in the ground. Of course, I never see those papers published in the American Journal of Medicine, or research publications, but since they're all led by Satan, we should expect that.

Damn anti-DNA crap.

Answer 3

I am not mormon and i have my own separate beliefs about the church but i do now that it is possible for God to change someone's DNA.

The bible says that all powers beloing to God also that with God nothing is impossible. There have been many miracles of healing even today. God is still preforming miracles.

To say whether that miracle really happened in the mormon church, i dont know.

Answer 4

God has nothing to do with a person's DNA. He only created the first man, Adam and the first woman, Eve. After that, whatever DNA they had were passed on to their offspring. That's that. Why would God change anyone's DNA? In these times and age, God does not interfere with mankind or whatever they do. God has given us the rules (10 commandments) to follow and the human will to choose which path to take and that's it until the day we are judged. There is no reason for us to make allegations or allusions that God changed someone's DNA. How did He do it? Through a miracle? Whew!

Answer 5

As you have figured out, God doesnt change the DNA for anyone - despite what the Mormon church says. They hold to that notion to support the notion that it was JEWS who inhabited North America in times past. The evidence is not with them on that one at all, but that doesn't stop them from believing it.

Answer 6

"God" ... or better THE GODS experimented. Trial and error until they sort of got it where they wanted. There are/were beings by far more advanced than we are now....... who done genetic engineering the same WE are beginning to practice or discover now - creating new life forms, gene splicing, DNA manipulation, cloning. We are becoming god /gods ourselves now to other creations - ours.

If you are interested about a truly modern creation account of /regarding intelligent Man - read Sitchin "The Lost Book of Enki". That is a translation from the clay tablets about 5000 years old found in Ninniveh in what is now Iraq.

Answer 7

1) In simple religion, god is believed to be a powerful being that can do anything he wants and DNA is the building blocks of life so God+DNA=Life or better God+DNA=Life....I think that's simple

2) Because it is thought that he has a plan for what he does...even though that is filled with holes too...he is believed or yet he does had a plan

3) Dude...your hating...don't hate...negotiate

4) I am not a Mormon but I will consider you not to go too far with that...I can say alot of stuff about your religion if you have one?

Answer 8

1 - idk
2 - He has done lots for lots.
3 - Yes.
4 - I haven't been taught anything by the Mormon Church.

Answer 9

The only answer you are going to get to this one from the religious people is that it's "god's will".. He can do anything, he's god, remember?

Oh brother.

Answer 10

The Mormon church, like all religions, is a fraud. People should know better.