No, it doesn't. If the Book of Mormon claimed to be a scientific book, but it doesn't. In the end, it is accepted on faith. Just like the Bible. I have not placed my faith on DNA or archeological finds. There are a lot of interesting finds that have occurred in the last few years, but again, my testimony is not based on those things.
The significant difference in Scripture and the Book of Mormon is the object of faith. It will only be a faith in God through Christ that will coincide with His grace in providing salvation to our already condemned status. Faith in any other thing is not the same faith as a nonmeritorious faith in something that is divinely righteous.
Insofar as the Son is the Word, faith in Scripture might indeed be included in salvific faith, then comes the obvious question as to the verity of documents asserted by other persons to be Scripture.
Why let any other person than God discern what is indeed Scripture? Jesus Christ Himself used passages from what we classify as the Old Testament and is quoted and doubly witnessed in the New Testament. Whereever any other source contradicts the Word of God contained in what we call the Old and New Testaments, there exists sufficient grounds to cast doubt on the credibility of the extraneous document. It is for this reason I find the Book of Mormon to not qualify as Scripture.