1462: New Temples Veil Mormonism’s Decline - Simon Southerton
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 181 minutes
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Summary
Geneticist Simon Southerton was serving as an Australian Mormon bishop when he discovered through DNA research that Native Americans were not descendants of Israelites (as the Book of Mormon teaches), but instead were descendants of Asians via the Bering Strait. This researched caused Simon to lose his faith in Mormonism. He is the author of a book on the subject called “Losing a Lost Tribe.”
Recently Simon has been studying the declining growth in the worldwide LDS or Mormon church. Simon will join us on Mormon Stories Podcast to discuss his research into Mormon church decline.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John Delin. It is August 19th, |
| 0:07.2 | 2021 and I am very excited for today's episode. |
| 0:12.8 | Today I have to thank for this episode. |
| 0:16.0 | First and foremost, my compadre, |
| 0:18.1 | Gerard, though, hey, Gerard, how's it going? |
| 0:20.3 | Hey, John. |
| 0:21.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:22.1 | We got you a nice high-deaf camera and a good microphone and now you're gonna be an |
| 0:27.6 | occasional co-host just like Caraburra. |
| 0:30.5 | Yeah, yeah. We'll see how it goes. |
| 0:32.7 | It's so great to have you and and not only are you co-hosting, but you kind of lined this one up. |
| 0:37.7 | You pay attention to what's going on on the internet and you noticed a really cool post that Dr. Simon Sotherton had made and |
| 0:45.2 | you you lined this up, didn't you? |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah, yeah. It was super interesting. |
| 0:49.8 | Simon definitely had some really good insights. So I was like, we got to cover this. |
| 0:54.3 | All right, well, Dr. Dr. Simon Sotherton, welcome back to Mormon Stories. |
| 0:59.6 | This is not your first rodeo as they say in Texas. |
| 1:02.8 | No. |
| 1:04.7 | It's probably mice. |
| 1:06.0 | I guess. |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.7 | Yeah. So so listeners, for those of you who don't know the name Simon Sotherton, |
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