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Near Eastern Migration to the Ancient Americas
Claim
“The Book of Mormon text, as published in 1830, describes populations deriving from ancient Near Eastern migrations to the Americas.”
Evidence confidence
HIGH · 78
Highly Probable. An assessment of evidential support, not a probability that the claim is true.
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Why
What the 1830 text says is established. Separating this from the historical and theological claims is the point of assessing it on its own.
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