I recently saw a program on nature. They introduced a shark. What followed wasn’t by any means surprising, it’s how all nature shows start these days. But this time I was particularly bothered at how kids (and everyone else) are so shamelessly battered by this dogma. The presentation began, “It seems evolution has created theRead more
I compiled and sent the following to BYU President Worthen June 15, 2020: President Worthen, Please consider my story about evolution being taught at BYU, signatures of those who feel similarly, & stories of others as presented below. I am a 2019 BYU graduate. During my wonderful time at BYU, I took many science classesRead more
June 2019, a letter to me from Joel Skousen, “There is no way that evolution and God are compatible. True evoluionists laugh at the notion because the whole purpose of evolution is to explain how things happen and exist without intelligent control or design and God’s entire purpose is to design things and allow othersRead more
“to think that man evolved from one species to another is, to me, incomprehensible… Man has always been man. Dogs have always been dogs. Monkeys have always been monkeys. It’s just the way genetics works…We have this doctrine, recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants, Section 101: “When the Lord shall come again, he shall revealRead more
I share these notes with permission of the author. Caution: these are my notes on my understanding of the presentation, and do not exactly capture the ideas presented. -Mt. Saint Helens made geological structures which we usually attribute to being extremely old. Deep bedrock can be cut in just a few days with powerfulRead more
Creationism Vs Evolution Debate Ken Ham And Bill Nye 2014[Full] (Ham is associated with AnswersInGenesis.org) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekse95-owyo I think the truth is probably somewhere in between what both of these guys say. On the one hand, the bible can have some of it symbolic, etc, and one of the key problems is that modern Christians rejectRead more
See also my document “In Favor of Science” quotes compiled which potentially support some of the ideas of organic evolution, or other contemporary science, if such is backed by evidence (the theories are often not). Beware this topic is controversial, some views of past church leaders may not represent official church views, and official LDSRead more