I will not change their minds, I clearly see. Yet so vastly removed in time and space, those of the Olmec seem to me to qualify as their own separate race. What tone of skin, I do not know. If the Jaredites were a mixed group, of varying face, I could not say. I know them only as Jaredites, and as the people of Jared.
Science says that once the earth was all one land.
The Bible says that came to an end lastly in the days of Peleg. So given the choice I will believe the Bible. Believing my church s scriptures already places me at odds with many of the world. Further, since my ideas do not conform with the current seemingly acceptable and popular thought of the Book of Mormon geography being limited to Central America, I find myself attached by some of my own also. I ve studied long and read many books concerning the matter, even some of theirs.