Posted by:
Brother Of Jerry
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Date: January 21, 2021 11:15PM
All of these questions and a good deal more are answered in the Wikipedia article, complete with links to BoM citations/references.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_MormonOf course according to Mormon scripture there was no "15,000 years ago". Death entered the world with the fall of Adam, the earth was depopulated in Noah's flood, the BoM Jaredits came to the Western Hemisphere shortly after that, and Lehi and company showed up around 600 BCE. The BoM mentions no other groups being here.
The apologist claim now is that the BoM doesn't say there wasn't anybody else here. That's less than honest, since it does say this was a special land, kept from the rest of the world, and reserved for these special groups in the BoM. Besides, the Flood should have killed everyone else.
Yes, science contradicts all that eight ways from Sunday. Plus the BoM is a hot mess of racism. All reasons I think the leadership is slowly backing away from the BoM and plan to pretend it doesn't exist at some point in the future.