truth dancer wrote:Where do you think the final battle with millions of people took place?
I find the arguments of David Palmer and John Sorenson and others persuasive that it was probably in the vicinity of Veracruz.
truth dancer wrote:If Mesoamerica, how do you think the plates arrived in the NY HC?
Moroni evidently had roughly thirty-five years after the final Nephite battle in which to take the plates wherever he needed to take them. And, even if one discounts the idea of divine guidance, he had powerful incentive to head northward to escape from the Lamanites (who would have loved to capture both the plates and the son of the last Nephite miitary commander). In his book
An Ancient American Setting for the Book of Mormon, John Sorenson briefly mentions the story of a shipwrecked early-seventeenth-century English sailor who, if I'm not mistaken, traveled alone from Guatemala to what is essentially upstate New York under conditions that probably weren't terribly different -- in terms of landscape, potentially hostile encounters, and the like -- from what Moroni would have faced in the early
fifth century.