Curelom and Cumom - Flora and Fauna - Book of Mormon Evidence

[Gryphex]

Neat video. I liked the little bit about cumoms and cureloms, and I totally agree. I think they were most likely alpacas or llamas as well.

[Lickmybrownhole]

Man's Knowledge is always evolving...........How long did the world think that the earth was Flat? Even after scientific proof was given??? One will never convert the " Natural Man'' .....with Natural Knowledge or scientific proof. It is only through Personal study and Heartfelt Prayer with your maker one can gain ' True light' or insight on things such as this.......One day we will all know the truth, Best of Luck with all things physical and Scientific....DFLIGHT

[LDS4Life71]

You can google "Mounting Evidence for the Book of Mormon - Ensign Jan 2000," by Daniel E. Peterson. It's a scholarly article and includes info and references about Mesoamerica.

At the start, B. H. Roberts reminds us, “The power of the Holy Ghost…must ever be the chief source of evidence for the Book of Mormon. All other evidence is secondary.…No arrangement of evidence, however skillfully ordered; no argument, however adroitly made, can ever take its place.”

[kramd1]

Not only are Bison, Jaguars, Turkeys , python, sloth,armadillo, monkeys , racoon, Tapir, ,Quetzal birds, not mentioned in the BofM. But also Stone buildings pyramids or ziggurats are not mentioned in the book of mormon.

[mooseclamps]

I wish you Mormons could see how truly insane this video is. It's no wonder that BYU 'archeology' is the laughing stock of worldwide Academia.

There is a basic flaw in every single one of these videos. They are not looking for evidence and drawing a conclusion from the evidence. They are starting with a conclusion and manufacturing evidence to support it. It's non-scientific garbage. They are also intentionally being deceptive. Example: Horses were in America. True, but the timeline is way off.

[LDS4Life71]

"Despise not prophesyings."

-- Paul, in 1 Thessalonians 5:20

[LDS4Life71]

Kramd1 is an ignorant troll.

The book of Mormon explains perfectly the truth as to what happened to the central american cultures that just seem to have vanished. The book of Mormon is 100% authentic part of ancient meso american history.

[kramd1]

@LDS4Life71As you say "seems to have vanished" just like the golden leaf book of mormon, the stone box it came in and a receipt of acquisition ? No proof, no refund. But you can exchange the steel sword of Laban for our many wooden clubs if that helps.

[kramd1]

The Mayans were the only Indians to develop a written language and it has no resemblance to Smith's supposed Book of Mormon reformed egyptian.

[Lostalaskan99701]

You know my favorite thing of history today is about scientists, they claim that dinosaurs roamed the land millions of years ago and horses were extinct 10 thousand years ago and yet can they prove this NO! they can't the only thing they go off of is theories but over all their is God and his plan he made the earth only he knows how old the planet it. I do not care how smart our scientists think they are nothing but arrogant fools that think they know what they are talking about.

[tamingoftheshrewd]

Had cureloms and cumoms been llamas and alpacas, Joseph Smith would have called them llamas and alpacas. Cureloms and cumoms are extinct now, but what we know as Uintatherium and Baluchitherium.

[kramd1]

What bothers me is the extensive posting of mormon videos with the title

EVIDENCE where no evidence is presented whatsoever.

[NoAntecessor]

What bothers me is that they briefly mention that things like "horses, cows, asses, etc" were in the new world when Lehi came over, yet the fossil evidence shows this is emphatically NOT the case. Donkeys were not native to north america, neither were cows or their ancestors the aurochs. Horses DID live in north america, but were extinct by 10,000 BC. If this was not the case there would be some fossil evidence. There is none. Zip. Did god magic away all the cow and horse skeletons?

[RegnevaWTone]

The title 'Book of Mormon Evidence' is a title for the series, not this specific video. Some of them deal more with discussing items in the text of the Book of Mormon with the theories being proposed. The other videos have more evidence. The very least bringing evidence of animals that Joseph Smith didn't know but were in America does have some evidence (as opposed to if there were no additional critters in an area-- for example he would have been familiar with all the critters in New York)

[ChristopherMillz]

interesting, but i would like to know more.

[AntiCitizenX]

The title of this video is entirely misleading. Simply stating a bunch of random semi-plausible scenarios with absolutely no factual support does NOT qualify as "evidence" for the Book of Mormon. Come on, guys, you can really do better than this. When ill-supported hypotheticals are the only evidence you can muster, then most smart people take this as a sign that their beliefs are in error.

[TrueSaintsLDS]

this video is NOT misleading.

anticiticizenX You are misleading and your beliefs are in error.

[AntiCitizenX]

Plausible speculation is not the same thing as evidence. I am also amazed at how you fail to see this, given the patently transparent absence of any real evidence in this video. I would suggest that you stop pre-supposing the truth of your beliefs before happily accepting every piece of confirmation bias that floats your way.

[TrueSaintsLDS]

O then, my beloved brethren, come unto the Lord, the Holy One. Remember that his paths are righteous. Behold, the way for man is narrow, but it lieth in a straight course before him, and the keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name. (2 Nephi 9:41).

[AntiCitizenX]

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

Carl Sagan

[robsooter]

you can see the stack of money in the guys pocket from endorsment and a card that says thanks for making mormons look a little bit better see you in church sunday

[Chevrobert]

Great vid. Thanks for the information. Keep up the good work.

[omiolo]

I will have to look up and find what animals the Jaredites brought with them.