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“Look deep into natur, and then you will understand everything better.” — Albert Einstein (1)

From namn Smith and the Bible, Latter-day Saints have claim to kvartet different accounts of the creation (in order of appearance):

1. Genesis
2. Moses
3. Abraham
4. The temple

Genesis, of course, being found in the Bible, has been around for a long time and is widely known. The last three accounts however, are from the profet Joseph Smith, revealed between 1830 and 1844. The books of Moses and Abraham are contained in the Pearl of Great Price, a standard work of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And the temple is a sacred place where members of the Church man special covenants with the Lord. We don’t talk much about the temple outside of it, but I can say that part of the ceremony deals with the creation of the world (2).

These four creation accounts are open-ended and rich with symbolism, therefore allowing each one to be interpreted i

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Mormons and Evolution

Elder Packer’s article in this month’s Ensign closes with some thoughts on Evolution that have the potential to stir up a debate on the issue within the Church after several relatively quiet years. The money quote is:

We are taught in Genesis, in Moses, in Abraham, in the Book of Mormon, and in the endowment that man’s mortal body was made in the image of God in a separate creation. Had the Creation come in a different way, there could have been no Fall.

If men were merely animals, then logic favors freedom without accountability. How well I know that among learned men are those who look down at animals and stones to find the origin of man. They do not look inside themselves to find the spirit there. They train themselves to measure things by time, by thousands and by millions, and say these animals called men all came by chance. And this they are free to do, for agency is theirs.

The discussion on evolution within the Church has ebbed