This book is not an exhaustive collection of the prophets’ teachings against evolution (that’s a project for another day), but it sufficiently demonstrates that the message of the prophets has been a consistent and clear message against Darwinian evolution, presenting an entirely different picture of God’s creation!

For a more detailed treatment of science and religion in the restoration, see my series, “Inspired Science and Religion: The Battle Against Evolution in the Restored Church: Vol. 1 Science, & Vol. 2: Religion.”

Nate Richardson is a member of and actively defends The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Evolutionists avoid bringing up many verses of scripture about the Creation, even when they are addressing the subject of the interplay of science and religion.

For those who choose to believe in God and his messengers, there is bright hope for true understanding. Joseph Smith taught, “When we understand the character of God, and know how to come to Him, he begins to unfold the heavens to us, and to tell us all about it. When we are ready to come to him, he is ready to come to us.” (History of the Church, 6:308).

Are you aware that there are numerous teachings on canonized scriptures and the teachings of Latter-day prophets spanning centuries, including First Presidency statements that renounce Darwinian evolution?

In this book we will review doctrines such as the 7-day creation, the 1000:1 creation day ratio, Adam as first man, mankind as literal lineal offspring of God, the worldwide flood of Noah, that animals only reproduce after their kind, that no death occurred before the Fall, that the Fall affected both plant, animal, and human life, that God speaks things into existence, the 7,000 year temporal lifespan of Earth, and that evolution is completely the opposite of what the scriptures teach!

Both hard (atheistic) evolution and soft (theistic) evolution are a far cry from the miraculous creative processes that God employs.

This book celebrates Joseph Fielding Smith’s book Man: His Origin and Destiny, written over 70 years ago, sharing many quotations from Smith’s timeless message that vindicate the scriptures against evolution. This book also commemorates the 100th anniversary of the bold 1925 First Presidency message denouncing evolution.

Scriptures of the restoration go against evolution. For starters:
-2 Nephi 2:22 there was no birth or death before the fall of Adam.
-D&C 77:6-7, 12 Earth’s temporal lifespan is 7,000 years (not billions).
-JST 2 Peter 3:8; Facs. 2 Fig. 1; Abr. 3:6-11 Each day of creation being 1000 years, not millions or billions of years.
-JST 2 Peter 3:5-7; Gen. 1:1-10 Earth was created by water and was later covered by a worldwide flood higher than the mountains which Noah and the animals couldn’t just run away from.
-D&C 84:16 Adam was the first man.
-D&C 29:34 We shouldn’t separate spiritual and temporal things.

And a few from the Bible:
-Luke 3:38 Adam was literally a son of God (not a son of millions of years of monkeys and humanoids).
-Psalms 19:1 Nature does prove God.
-Romans 5:12, 14 By one man sin and death entered the world.
-1 Cor. 15:21-22,26 by the man Adam came death.
-Genesis 3:17-19; Romans 8:18-22: Plants were also affected by the Fall.
-Genesis 1, 6, 7, Moses 2: Animals only reproduce after their kind (no common ancestor).
-Genesis 3:17-20 shows even plant life was impacted by the Fall of man, and that Eve was the mother of ALL living.
-Romans 8 :21-22 speaks of all of creation being cursed.
-1 Corinthians 15:21-22, 26, and 45 speak of Adam as the first man, and of death entering the world at his Fall.
-Romans 5: 12-14 also teaches these doctrines of death originating from the sin of man.

Embrace the truth!