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A challenge for the Mormons (genetics news)

...This analysis is radically at odds with long-standing Mormon teachings.Some longtime observers believe that, ultimately, the vast majority of Mormons will disregard the genetic research as an unworthy distraction from their faith."This may look like the crushing blow to Mormonism from the outside," said Jan Shipps, a professor emeritus of religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis who has studied the church for 40 years.

"But religion ultimately does not rest on scientific evidence, but on mystical experiences.

There are different ways of looking at truth."The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes an angel named Moroni led 22-year-old Joseph Smith in 1827 to a divine set of golden plates buried in a hillside near his New York home.God provided Smith with a pair of glasses and seer stones that allowed him to translate the "Reformed Egyptian" writings on the golden plates into the Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ.Mormons believe these scriptures restored the church to God's original vision and left the rest of Christianity in a state of apostasy.

The book's narrative focuses on a tribe of Jews who sailed from Jerusalem to the New World in 600 BC and split into two main warring factions.The God-fearing Nephites were "pure" (the w...

These Suns just won't stop rising (genetics news)

... Sometimes speed kills.

Sometimes it commits suicide.Charley Rosen is FOXSports.com's NBA analyst and author of 13 books about hoops, the current one being "The pivotal season — How the 1971-72 L.A.

Lakers changed the NBA." TOP STORIES • What we learned from Friday's action • More reports have Owens, Cowboys agreeing on deal • No.

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Lawn mores (genetics news)

...Focusing on genes tempts us to accept as inevitable the roughly 75,000 Americans injured each year using lawnmowers or the groundwater contamination caused by lawn overfertilization.

But, in fact, ecological history suggests that traveling back and forth across the yard with our spreaders is no more natural than the chemicals we are putting in the ground.

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