LOL. You're so funny. Of course there is evidence people sailed to the Americas from different parts of the world. I'm sure JS had SOME historical knowledge of how America became America - things like "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue", Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, etc. Now, for your religious history to be correct, you need to demonstrate that the people of the BOM actually did sail the high seas and landed in the Americas in the time frame that your hero JS says they did. Present some actual historical evidence to provide that link and then I may be impressed. Until then, just a poorly written fairy tale.
Well of course even non-scientific people know that people sailed to the Americas in 1492, this is not a challenge. But to say that people sailed to the Americas in 2200bc, and 590bc, and 580bc is to challenge the very fabrication of the scientific world that knew nothing more than people populated the Americas in one way and one way only, by the Bering Straite.
That is why they laughed so heartily at JS, only to find 150 years later, the text books all have to be changed because science has had to change its long standing theme of how the Americas were populated, and include ocean crossings from far off lands.
This is a scientific fact described by JS and confirmed by non-LDS scientists, but you still just laugh. You are right, we have to link that crossing with BOM people. But first we have to have science acknowledge that what JS said could be true. We have reached that first step, science now confirms ancient sea crossings.
In the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City there is a wonderful pictorial tapestry
on the wall depicting the first people that came to Mexico. They are said to be coming out of 7 caves in the water, and turtles are bringing them to shore on their backs.
JS said that the Olmecs came to the Americas in 8 barges, (like 8 caves moving through the waters) which landed near the shores of Mexico around 2200bc. We can make a case that those 8 caves in the water, were actually the barges that the BOM people came over the waters in. The description of these barges would be just like a cave moving through the waters. Read it.
Ether 2:16-17
16 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did go to work, and also his brethren, and built barges after the manner which they had built, according to the instructions of the Lord. And they were small, and they were light upon the water, even like unto the lightness of a fowl upon the water. Now the number of the vessels which had been prepared was eight.
17 And they were built after a manner that they were exceedingly tight, even that they would hold water like unto a dish; and the bottom thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the sides thereof were tight like unto a dish; and the ends thereof were peaked; and the top thereof was tight like unto a dish; and the length thereof was the length of a tree; and the door thereof, when it was shut, was tight like unto a dish.
I am willing to associate this crossing, and the landing of these 8 barges (caves) to the caves in the water on the tapestry in the museum at Mexico City. So I believe this tapestry links BOM people to the history of Mexico.
If you think about it, it makes sense. The flood was around 2300bc, and a short time after the flood was the tower of Babel built. This all happened in the middle east. Was there people in Mexico yet, since the flood? NO! So read how the Lord brought people to the Americas after the flood.
Ether 1:33
Which Jared came forth with his brother and their families, with some others and their families, from the great tower, at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people,
and swore in his wrath that they should be scattered upon all the face of the earth; and according to the word of the Lord the people were scattered.
Ether 1:38
And it came to pass that Jared spake again unto his brother, saying:
“Go and inquire of the Lord whether he will drive us out of the land, and if he will drive us out of the land, cry unto him whither we shall go. And who knoweth but the Lord will carry us forth into a land which is choice above all the earth? And if it so be, let us be faithful unto the Lord, that we may receive it for our inheritance.
So from the tower of Babel did these BOM people come around 2200bc and landed in Mexico and populate this land. The first people since the flood. Science calls them Olmec. The BOM call them Jaredites. Interesting story and the tapestry link is interesting. It is something to think about.
