Who Crossed Before Columbus? Investigating Book of Mormon Voyages | Episode 6, A Marvelous Work

Episode 6 of A Marvelous Work asks the question "Were ancient ocean voyages possible?" Join the adventure as we take to the sea and discuss the oceanic travels of Book of Mormon peoples.

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0:00 Episode Preview
0:33 Opening Thoughts
1:41 Land Bridge Theory
2:56 Episode Trailer
3:42 Captain Scott
4:20 Pre-Columbian Oceanic Crossings
5:58 Stephen C. Jett
12:07: 1 Nephi 13
13:27 Philip Beale
20:24 Jean-Jacques Savin
21:14 Thor Heyerdahl
22:55 Nephi’s Voyage
24:16 Boyd Tuttle
29:31 Scott Attempts to Fish
30:03 Pacific Ocean Voyages
32:18 The Iosepa
38:17 AJ’s Story
44:04 Concluding Thoughts/ End Credits
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[jilldowding-walker]

I had really been looking forward to this episode! I'm so grateful for you showing the inspiration and bravery of those ancient seafarers! 😊❤

[ReachingForTheBrightestStar]

SO GOOD. My favorite evidence of the Book of Mormon is the one highlighted at the end: spiritual experience conversion story of the young man. “It felt like Heavenly Father was right next to me trying to tell me the Book of Mormon was true.” I love that

[lmfarms]

Thank you. I think that we are close minded to think we are the only ones that could navigate the oceans. As long as man has been here he will always wonder what is over the next mountain or ocean. Celestial Navigation has been going on for centuries past down from father to son and beyond.

[d.beaumont]

I'm looking forward to this. The last documentary that i can recall on this topic was back in the seventies.

[charlottehatch]

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[arthurjones]

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[jamesbaldwin]

Oceans have never been a geographical barrier of any kind for seafaring people, but a highway for them. . Ancient mariners have traveled the oceans of the world with little or no limitations. They may not always have known where they were after making landfall, only that they had arrived someplace new and different.

Global sailing routes, based on constant and reliable tradewinds, have certainly been known for centuries and have remained unchanged for millennia. The same holds true for major ocean currents.

It's not only possible that people could have made long ocean passages, but impossible for them not to have done so.

Anyone with a boat can go anywhere there is water and so they have. It's silly to think otherwise.

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