Finally, the virus has learned to eradicate models altogether:
The internal map does nothing to establish anything of value, and the hobbyist just ends up where he started. The bottom line is, the “internal map” looks just like what the hobbyist wants it to look like…Archaeologists didn’t find Troy by drawing an imaginary map. (Joshua B. Mariano and Edwin Goble, Resurrecting Cumorah, 2009, p. 13)
The reason for having an internal Book of Mormon geography map is to demonstrate that the modeler understands the text and whether a bias virus, such as the H38, has infected it.
Ed Goble co-authored the book “This Land, Zarahemla, and the Nephite Nation: Only One Cumorah” with Wayne May (Colfax, WI: Ancient American Archaeology Foundation, 2002), a model he has since disavowed. Both of Goble’s works suffer from the “Filtered Text Syndrome,” which prevents a researcher from accepting the text as it is written. For example, land distances are clear; Book of Mormon lands were only 1.5 days wide, something Goble continues to ignore.