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Daily Poll: Should Schools Teach the Mormon Belief that Native Americans Descend from Jews?

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Daily Poll: Should Schools Teach the Mormon Belief that Native Americans Descend from Jews?

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Daily Poll: Should Schools Teach the Mormon Belief that Native Americans Descend from Jews? Saturday May 27, 2006 Mormon faith is predicated upon a simple and testable idea: ancient Hebrews traveled to the Americas and established here a civilization. Whether this is true or not can be determined by basic DNA tests. Do the peoples of America have any genetic connection to Semites from the Middle East? No – their lineage is traced back to Asia, not to the Israelites. Should this matter in schools, though? Why not teach “both sides” of the debate, the false Mormon side and the scientific truth? Daily Poll: Should schools teach both sides of the origin of Native Americans – the scientific version and the Mormon version? • No, that would be ridiculous. Only the scientifically supported explanation should be taught. •