The mormons "book of mormon" references them using horses in what is supposedly the american continent.
2007-07-25 17:04:11 · 15 answers · asked by Al Shaitan 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The native North American horses disappeared during the last Ice Age.
2007-07-25 17:10:08 · answer #1 · answered by Terry 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Horses were indigenous to Europe and not the Americas, which has been a bit perplexing to some scientists for a long time, since the animal seems perfectly adapted to the environment of America and flourished rapidly as if they should have always been here. It has even been speculated that early ancestors of the modern horse must have once lived on the American continent but perished due to some unknown environmental change. According to this theory, the Spanish only, unknowingly, re-introduced the horses to a place they belonged.
2007-07-25 17:17:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
According the the Maxwell Institute of Smoke and Mirrors: "The Book of Mormon never claims that the horse was universally known or used in the New World. For example, Book of Mormon references to horses suggest that they may have been relatively uncommon, being limited only to certain regions during specific periods of Book of Mormon history..." Then they go on about ONE horse remains found in Florida dated to 100BC, but does not mention the swamp's carbon content it was found in.
So, if the Church's Official Heretics say the horse was 'uncommon', how'd they pull all them pre-columbian chariots? The ones without wheels, I mean?
Oh! I know: Nephites invented the "Sleigh"
2007-07-26 05:22:47 · answer #3 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last horses in the Americas were hunted to extinction 20 thousand years ago. Then the Spaniards brought them back 500 years ago.
(Tobacco is native to North America).
2007-07-25 17:13:17 · answer #4 · answered by skeptic 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. The first horses in the Americas came with the European invaders.
2007-07-25 17:10:26 · answer #5 · answered by Yank 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about the horse thing, but I believe that the Book of Mormon is totally true and if it's saying that there were horses, then it's true, why would they lie? The book isn't a lie.
2007-07-25 17:13:51 · answer #6 · answered by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes, but they disappeared a long time before the Spanish reintroduced them in the 1500's.
2007-07-25 17:33:51 · answer #7 · answered by Twitch 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, there wasn't. The Spanish brought many things to America, like tobacco, gunpowder, and smallpox.
2007-07-25 17:08:41 · answer #8 · answered by Skunk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not! This is one of the inaccuracies and anachronisms that is found in the Book of Mormon.
steel before it is developed
compasses before they were invented
quotes from Shakespeare
etc.
2007-07-29 00:08:35 · answer #9 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
see the horses were once buffalo but they disobeyed got and received a MARK and now they are horses.
2007-07-26 15:23:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋