Science and the Book of Mormon

To understand the geologic, archaeological, and anthropological time surrounding the Book of Mormon, one needs to understand how science has conditioned the world to think hypothesis, theories and supposition are factual and unchallengeable, specifically in areas of radiocarbon dating and long period time clocks, geologic epochs and the geologic column, the Big Bang singularity and the red-shifted expanding universe, and in universal and organic evolution—-while at the same time, understanding the evidences for a short term formation of the earth, a world-wide flood, and the division of the earth.

As an example, science claims the earth is 4.55 billion years old, therefore, in their minds and understanding, cataclysmic events, such as the results of the Flood of Noah, earth divisions, continents moving, and land surfaces appearing, if they happened at all they say, were spaced over hundreds of million to billions of years.

With this conditioning, researchers into the geography and location of the Land of Promise disregard South America as a landing site and location because of its current extensive size. Yet these same sciences also claim that South America, east of the Andes, was under water in ancient times, and that Colombia was not connected to Central America. Consequently, if we understand the Age of the Earth as the Lord told Moses, and is described in Genesis and the Pearl of Great Price, we get a better understanding of what Jacob described as the Land of Promise being an island (2 Nephi 10:20).

While there is a 6,000-year-old written history depicting events relevant to this knowledge, scientists reject the information outright; however, in understanding this early text, one can come to a better, much clearer understanding of the location of the Book of Mormon. One thing is certain in all this ancient knowledge, this world is not 4.55 billion years old as scientists like to claim, though some of the materials used in its formation may well be that old or older. However, the organization of this planet as a whole took place in a relatively short period of time and has existed in its present form for far less time than science wants to believe.

In coming to an understanding of these two very important points—the Age of the Earth and the location of the Land of Promise, I recommend my two books 1) Lehi Never Saw Mesoamerica, and 2) Scientific Fallacies & Other Myths, be read together. Only in this way can a person overcome the imbedded false teachings of those who reject scripture and God and try to convince the world past events happened by chance, and that South America has always looked as it does today during the age of man.