Science Can Be Like The Book Of Mormon

[dougtheavenger]

A few years back, a jaw bone was discovered in a cave called "On Your Knees Cave" in Alaska. The bone was dubbed On Your Knees Cave Man (OYKCM). An excellent scientist, named Brian Kemp managed to extract MtDNA and identify it as a strain of haplogroup D. This was interesting because the living relatives of this guy lived all down the west coast of North and South America suggesting the first colonizers of America (We call them Jaredites) had boats and colonized by boat. Kemp also managed to extract and identify the Y-chromozome of this guy and it tested positive for two mutations; M242 and M3, which has been taken as evidence (absolute proof by some) that the M3 mutation is at least 10K years old. The M3 mutation defines a distinctively Native American subclade of the Q1a3 haplogroup. This was important because in 1996, Peter Underhill PhD of Stanford calculated that all men with M3 alive today descend from a guy who lived about 150 BC. Very recent research (2011) indicates that the Q1a3 lineage in Siberia only dates back to 6,000 years ago at most. Using observed rather than theoretical mutation rates, Siberian Q1a3 is even younger. It only goes back 3,000 years. So a lot of mainstream science is hanging on this jawbone from OYKCM.

Furthermore laws passed by John McCain and others in congress gave ownership of the OYKCM jawbone to the nearest Native American tribe. Kemp negotiated with them to perform a few tests on the remains after which the Lamenites took it back and buried it in an unknown location. The particular Native American who took posession of the OYKCM jawbone after Kemp was done with it was not named Moroni. Nevertheless, I see a parallel with the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated. The OYKCM is not available for any further examination and, as we know, neither are the golden plates.

Why would we want to test the OYKCM further? One reason is that decay can mimic mutation. This was discovered when a viking ship discovered with the remains of its crew appeared to be manned by Syrians instead of Scandanavians. So we might want to test OYKCM for mutations incompatible with Q. If it were to test positive for haplogroup C and or E, that would suggest that mutations had been mimicked by decay because it is impossible to be both Q and C or Q and E. However, no can do. The Native American, not Moroni this time, have taken OYKCM back. No more tests.

Edited February 13, 2012 by dougtheavenger