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Radio Free Mormon

Book of Mormon DNA

Radio Free Mormon

Mormon Discussion Inc

Religion & Spirituality

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on Mormonism Live, we tackle one of the most persistent and uncomfortable questions in modern Mormon scholarship: What does DNA actually say about the Book of Mormon? Our guest is Dr. Thomas W. Murphy, anthropologist, award-winning scholar, and author of Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon. Dr. Murphy’s latest presentation, “DNerAsure: Unsettling… Read More »Book of Mormon DNA

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0:00.0

Good evening, everyone. This is Radio Free Mormon. That's Bill Real, and this is Mormonism Live.

0:09.9

Really excited for tonight show. It's Book of Mormon DNA, like we've never seen it before, and by that I mean, in a format that I can understand.

0:19.4

And it took a great professor,

0:21.4

a professor of anthropology,

0:23.4

to be able to say it in such a way

0:25.1

that even I could understand it,

0:26.7

and we're lucky enough to have him

0:28.3

as a guest tonight with us on the show.

0:31.7

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome with me,

0:34.8

Professor Thomas W. Murphy.

0:39.8

Good evening. Good evening.

0:41.7

It's great to be here from Seahawk territory in the Seattle area.

0:48.5

Yes, two out of the three of us are in Seahawk territory.

0:52.3

One of us is in perpetual brown mode. Cleveland Browns. Yeah,

0:57.6

it's sad over here on this side of the country. Yeah. Yeah, that was quite a good team's over there,

1:03.2

too. What's that? I understand they have some good teams over there too. I mean, New England,

1:10.1

if you keep going, you know, Detroit line, you could pick something else. I'm they have some good teams over there, too. I mean, New England, if you keep going,

1:11.1

you know, Detroit line, you could pick something else. I'm just saying. Yeah. There's better teams than the

1:17.3

Browns, that's for sure. Well, this is getting us off to a rollicking start, at least with football

1:22.4

fans. But Professor Murphy, anyway, we'll give us a secret sign of the Seahawks right there.

1:29.0

And we want to talk with you tonight, especially about DNA in the Book of Mormon, and specifically, specifically to give you the chance to respond to some scurrilous statements by Stephen B. Smoot, especially, in a recent podcast titled,

1:52.0

it's the Uninformed Saints Podcast. Three Uninformed Saints get together and show how uninformed they are,

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