1. Warr: “South America has been suggested as a possible site for Book
of Mormon lands. This theory requires some major geographic changes to make it
possible.”
There have been “major
geographic changes” at different times in the course of the Earth’s
development. First, was the original organization; second, the Flood; third,
when the Earth was Divided; fourth, the destruction at the time of Christ’s
crucifixion; and fifth, the tectonic movement of plates claimed by scientists
over several thousands of years. Taking just one example: the idea of an
earthquake lasting three hours (3 Nephi 8:19), is beyond imagination—there has
never been an earthquake recorded for more than a minute or two. This
earthquake toppled and destroyed buildings over thousands of square miles (3
Nephi 8:12-13), created vast valleys in level ground, earth opened to envelope
entire cities, oceans rushed in to cover other cities (3 Nephi 8:14), level
ground rose up to form mountains, “whose height is great” (Helaman 14:23), and
“the face of the whole earth became deformed” (3 Nephi 8:17). The changes Warr claims would have to take place have already been recorded as taking place.
2. Warr: "The most common proposal suggests that the Amazon basin
was at a lower elevation and was underwater before the time of Christ."
Much of the Amazon Basin is underwater
even today
The Amazon Basin, which
is 2,670,000 square miles (the land mass of the entire United States is 3.5 million square miles), and covers about 40% of the entire continent of South
America. This Basin is east of the Andes, covering parts of Ecuador, Colombia,
Venezuela, Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru, and flows to the Atlantic Ocean
about 4,000 miles away. This Amazon Basin is mostly underwater, with the land
itself beneath the surface in many areas.
Iquitos, along the flood plain of the Amazon in northeastern Peru, is called the floating city
As an example, Iquitos, the largest city in the
Peruvian rainforest and major port of the Amazon Basin, with a population of
406,340 people, is partly built on balsa rafts that float up and down as the
water level rises and falls. Its highest point is in May, its lowest in October.
Belen, Amazonas, is a floating city east of Iquitos, where the buildings are tethered to poles so they can move up and down as the flood plain waters rise or fall
3. Warr: "This created a narrow neck somewhere in eastern Peru or Ecuador, the land southward being south of this narrow neck, and the land northward to the north."
With most of the land
east of the Andes more or less underwater, the land was what is now west of the
Andes. Chileans, even today, call their country an island. According to the
scientific findings of the deep sea drilling vessel, Glomar Challenger, Panama was not connected to Colombia in recent
times, and Darwin himself claimed his findings of the Andes mountains told him
that land eastward was underwater in very recent times and the Atlantic Ocean reached the Andes
Mountains. This particular land mass west of present day Andes, is separated
north and south by the very large Bay of Guayaquil along the southern
Ecuadorian border. The distance from the east end of the Bay to the Andes is
about 26 miles. If the Andes Mountains are the mountains Samuel the Lamanite
claimed rose up, “whose height is great,” then the Sea East would have been
about 30 miles from the east end of this Bay. As a footnote, the great height
of the Andes, ranging between about 19,000 and 22,000 feet, is the highest
mountain range in the Western Hemisphere, and dwarfs any mountains in Central
America and the Eastern United States.
The Bay of Guayaquil, more accurately called the Gulf of Guayaquil, was created along several fault systems, and surrounded by mangrove forests
The Bay of
Guayaquil along the Pacific Ocean coast of southwest Ecuador divides the Andean plain between the coast and the Andes Mountains. Almost all the rivers in Ecuador flow east into the Amazon, but a few rivers from the north and some from the south in Peru, empty into the gulf, such as the Guayas and Jubones rivers in Ecuador, and the Zarumilla and Tumbes rivers in Peru.
4. Warr: "At the time of Christ's crucifixion the surface of the
land was changed (elevated in this case) resulting in what we see today.”
The term “elevation in
this case,” is not what the scriptures indicate. When Samuel the Lamanite was
preaching, he prophesied that at the time of the Savior “shall yield up the
ghost there shall be thunderings and lightnings for the space of many hours, and
the earth shall shake and tremble; and the rocks which are upon the face of
this earth, which are both above the earth and beneath, which ye know at this
time are solid, or the more part of it is one solid mass, shall be broken up;
Yea, they shall be rent in twain, and shall ever after be found in seams and in
cracks, and in broken fragments upon the face of the whole earth, yea, both
above the earth and beneath” (Helaman 14:21). Note he describes what will take
place above and below the earth,
which is not merely “elevated in this case.”
Andes
Mountains, whose height is great, is the longest continental mountain range in the world
The Andes range is the highest mountain range outside of Asia. The highest peaks are over 22,000 feet, and the range is farther from the Earth's center than any other location on Earth's surface due to the equatorial bulge resulting from the Earth's rotation. The world's highest volcanoes are in the Andes, at 22,615 feet and 50 other Andean volcanoes rise above 19,685 feet. Indeed, as Samuel the Lamanite said, mountains will rise up whose height is great!
The Andes range is the highest mountain range outside of Asia. The highest peaks are over 22,000 feet, and the range is farther from the Earth's center than any other location on Earth's surface due to the equatorial bulge resulting from the Earth's rotation. The world's highest volcanoes are in the Andes, at 22,615 feet and 50 other Andean volcanoes rise above 19,685 feet. Indeed, as Samuel the Lamanite said, mountains will rise up whose height is great!
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