According to Woodward, even if you assume we knew what DNA to look for, finding DNA evidence of Book of Mormon people may be very difficult. When a small group of people intermarry into a large population, the DNA markers that might identify their descendants could entirely disappear — even though their genealogical descendants could number in the millions.

http://www.mormontimes.com/article/12436/Hebrew-DNA-found-in-South-America

Recently scientists have determined that Caucasians and Orientals, but not Negroes have some DNA markers from Neanderthals. If any Semites came to the New World before the time of Columbus, American Indians will have some DNA markers from them.

Scholars have argued for more than 50 years that the book allows for the migrations meeting an existing population.

This completely undermines the critics’ conclusions.

http://www.mormontimes.com/article/12436/Hebrew-DNA-found-in-South-America

No where in the Book of Mormon is there any mention of the migrations meeting an existing population.

Was Hebrew DNA recently found in American Indian populations in South America? According to Scott R. Woodward, executive director of Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, a DNA marker, called the “Cohen modal haplotype,” sometimes associated with Hebrew people, has been found in Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia.

Woodward says that most likely, when higher-resolution tests are used, we will learn that the Hebrew DNA in native populations can be traced to conquistadors whose ancestors intermarried with Jewish people in Spain or even more modern migrations.

http://www.mormontimes.com/article/12436/Hebrew-DNA-found-in-South-America

In other words, this is a lot of excitement over nothing.

A quick Google from the information in the above link shows us that the research has been put forward by ‘Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation.’ Where might this organisation with such ground breaking, faith promoting research be based? Yep, as suspected, they’re based in Salt Lake City lol.

So the search continues, can anyone find a non-mormon scientist in any field, that supports any Book of Mormon archeology, or any claim that Native Americans can be tracd back to the Holy Land, either through DNA or through Native American customs?