Critical View of The Mammoth Theory
Mainstream paleontologists believe that mastodons and mammoths became extinct by 4000 BCE, before the time period that many believe that the Tower of Babel was built in, due to a lack of evidence of mammoths in later eras but according to the Book of Mormon, this section takes place many years after the scattering from the Tower of Babel and the Jaredites departure to the Americas:
- 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 1:33
This leans towards the fact that a beast of burden in that time period most likely would not have been a mammoth, although many Latter Day Saints still persist in displaying Cureloms as mammoths in literature and media.
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