[sevenbak]

[[[ The idea that they arrived in the last 3,000 years is a little ridiculous.]]] Yes it is ridiculous, laughably ridiculous.

LDS believe America was peopled long before the Nephites. The Jaredites were here right after the Tower of Babel, and we believe that Adam and his progeny started here as well. Of course this was back before the earth was divided in the days of Nimrod, so who knows what the geography was like then