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This is Radio Free Mormon on the air, broadcasting behind enemy lines.

Tonight's episode, Can I Get a Witness?

Debunking Chapter 5 of the Light and Truth Letter.

This is Radio Free Mormon, episode 377.

We're recording this on the morning of December 21st, 2024.

And by we, I mean me and my esteemed co-counsel, Kobe Reddish. Good morning. How are you doing? Good morning. I'm great. How are you? I am fine. We're going to have to dispense with the pleasantries because we have a time crunch on this one. And we got to get it done before. Colby has to go and take care of some family business. So let's think it's funny to call two and a half hours a time crunch, but yes. It's a total time crunch. Between two lawyers, it'll be a miracle if we get this done in two and a half hours. So let's put the slide up there on the screen. Can I get a witness, chapter five of the light and truth letter? Once again, we have to say at the beginning that we continue to call

out to young Austin Fife to see if he wants to come on this show to talk about his light and

truth letter. He is the author of the letter. I know he's aware of our invitation and yet he seems

reluctant. Is that correct, Colby? That's absolutely correct. He has indicated he feels more comfortable on the faithful podcast,

which I completely understand. And I will continue to point out that if you write a letter to

the critics, and that's the way the light and truth letter begins, the introduction says it's written

to the critics, it's a little hard to take that seriously when you don't want to talk to any. But I'll just note that. I did have one correction from last episode where I did actually misspeak. We were talking about genetic evidence and we were talking about the X2A haplogroup marker, if you remember that. Yeah, they did previously. Yep. And I said that was a post-Columbian marker.

Sometimes in my mind, I remember the conclusion, but not the reason we get there.

And I remember the X2A haplogroup in my mind as being not, basically as being

conclusively proven that it doesn't support Book of Mormon historicity.

And it was Dr. Thomas Murphy and another commenter that actually reminded me,

the reason we know the X2A happo group can't be evidence for the Book of Mormon.

The X2A haplogroup is shared by Semitic peoples.

So that's where it becomes relevant is because it was found in a skeleton up in your area called the Kenwick man that date back you know eight nine thousand years

and so we call him Ken for short we call him Ken for short yeah and so there's a there is definitive

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