Book: Who Needs Evolution When You’ve Got the Restoration?: An Inspired Approach to Science & Religion

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Wake Up, Saints! God Didn’t Use Evolution!

Are you aware that there are abundant teachings in canonized scriptures and teachings of Latter-Day prophets spanning centuries, including doctrinally official First Presidency statements, denouncing Darwinian evolution? Are you aware that the acceptance of evolution is being advocated at BYU? In this book, Nate exposes these coordinated attacks and provides a point-by-point rebuttal to the “Let’s Talk About Science and Evolution” book, which promotes evolution, published by Deseret Book in 2023. Armed with the truth about man’s origins from the restored gospel and findings of cutting-edge science, there’s no need to compromise on timetables for Earth’s age, or to buy into the claim that animal and man came from a single common ancestor.

In this book, you’ll find rebuttals to evolutionary science claims like hominid monkey-men, radiometric dating and old Earth, homologous and vestigial structures, genetic evolution and DNA similarities, the common ancestor of man and beast, transitional fossils, the phylogenetic tree, the geologic column, and more. Included in this book are highlights from many scientists demonstrating the falsehood of evolution’s claims, such as Morris, Behe, Meyer, Wells, and others.

Originally published in 2024, this book commemorates the 70th anniversary of Joseph Fielding Smith’s book Man: His Origin & Destiny and shares several quotations of Smith’s timeless message. This updated edition, published in 2025, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the bold 1925 First Presidency message, repeating their 1909 message in keeping with their denunciation of evolution by teaching that mankind is the “direct lineal offspring” of God.

Join Nate, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, science teacher, and BYU graduate, who discusses these controversial issues in an easy-to-read format with color-coded text and laughs around every corner. Now is the time for the silent majority who recognize the inherently ridiculous nature of evolution to become acquainted with the scientific and doctrinal truths of the creation, and voice their concerns to our educational establishments to protect our children from the godless and dangerous implications of the theory of evolution.

Parts:

Part 1
BYU Advocating Evolution, An Awful Situation

Part 2
Refuting Evolutionary Science Claims:
Scientific Evidence that God Didn’t Use Evolution

Part 3
The Church Still Against Evolution: Responding to Claims about a Vague or Neutral Church Position
Ecclesiastical Evidence that God Didn’t Use Evolution

Part 4
Evolution’s Influence on Testimony: Responding to Claims about the Religious Irrelevance of Evolution
Spiritual Evidence that God Didn’t Use Evolution

Part 5
Doctrines of The Creation:
Theological Evidence that God Didn’t Use Evolution

Part 6
Higlighting Evolution Challengers
More Scientific Evidence that God Didn’t Use Evolution

Contents:

Part 1: BYU Advocating Evolution. 11
A Troublesome Book. 11
My Book. 13
Versions Of Creation & Evolution Explained. 15
Talk About Evolution. 17
Brigham Young: Embrace Knowledge & Reject Evolution. 20
BYU Evolution Classes, Bean Museum, Evolution Teachers, & Correspondence with the Brethren  22
BYU Hawaii President Would “Refuse” to Stop Teaching Evolution & Mocks Scripture Literalists  29
My BYU Professors Who Encouraged Me To Accept Evolution. 30
Parents of BYU Students Not Happy About BYU Evolution Promotion. 32
Calling for a Testimony of Evolution? Their Successful & Comfortable “Reconciliation Model”  35
Putting Science Before Religion: A Great Hinderance to True Education  38
Part 2: Refuting Evolutionary Science Claims. 43
Dismissing all Creation Science as Pseudoscience: Who’s Really Being Scientific?  45
Insisting on a Common Ancestor: Biology’s Tree. 47
Insisting on a Common Ancestor: Geology’s Column. 54
Human-Like Ancestors?. 61
DNA & Homology. 70
Similar (Homologous) Bone Structures?. 73
Evolutionary Leftover (Vestigial) Structures?. 77
Similar Embryos?. 78
Radiometric Ages of the Old Earth? 80
Transitional Fossils? Archeopteryx?. 86
Species Change. 87
Insisting on Evolution: Beyond Theory. 91
Un-Equal Representation & Bias Against Non-Evolutionary Views and Findings  93
Insisting on Agnostic Science: No God Allowed. 98
God Used Evolution? Yikes! An Overview of Religious & Scientific Issues  99
Atheistic Evolution Encouraged?. 104
The Right Way to Approach Creation So We Aren’t “Willingly Ignorant:” Demonstratable Science  106
Previewing Key Concepts on Church Doctrine. 109
Part 3: The Church Still Against Evolution. 112
Talmage, Widstoe, Eyring, & The Consistent Message of the Church. 112
What about Joseph Fielding Smith’s 1954 Book “Man: His Origin & Destiny?”  121
President Nelson Repeatedly Denounces Evolution. 126
Debunking the Claim that First Presidency Statements Don’t “Confirm Or Deny” Evolution  131
Anonymous 1910 Statement Erroneously Hailed as Coming from the First Presidency  135
3 BYU Professors Fired for Teaching Evolution & Liberal Doctrines. 141
Issues with the ‘No Official Church Position on Evolution’ Claim.. 147
8 Issues with the “Church History: Organic Evolution” Web Page. 153
Issues with The BYU Evolution Packet, & Dogma. 159
Issues with The 1931 Evolution Statement on ‘Leaving it All to Scientists’ 162
Will You Believe Plain Truth, Be Compelled, or Even Mock Believers on The Evolution Question?  164
Part 4: Evolution’s Corrupting Influence On Testimony. 175
Abraham Implies Evolution?. 176
Scripture Got Creation Order Wrong?. 177
Origin of Morals: Children of Natural Selection?. 181
Nature is Strong Evidence for God, Don’t Separate Temporal/Spiritual 185
Evolutionary Pseudoscience is Dangerous Indeed. 190
If Nature Doesn’t Need God (As Evolution Claims), He Probably Doesn’t Exist 196
Testimony of God’s Plan & The Restoration. 198
What are the Spiritual Truths We Can Learn?. 201
Which Teachings Lead Children Away from Christ?. 206
Questioning Our Culture of Truth Seeking. 214
Beware Uninspired Scientists: Prophetic Denunciation of Darwin. 214
Silly Claims Concerning Korihor & Satan. 220
Cursed Educational Establishment Pushing Deceptive ‘Science’ 221
Faith Until Science?. 223
Rejection of Creation Truth Foretold. 225
Both Wrong: Mainstream Science & Mainstream Religion. 227
Part 5: Doctrines Of The Creation. 229
Adam: First Man. 230
Adam: Literal Progeny of God (Not Hominid) 234
No Death Before The Fall; Fall Also Affected Animal & Plant Life. 241
Reproduction Only After Their Kind. 248
7000 Temporal Years of Earth. 253
7 Days of Creation. 255
1 Day of Creation is 1000 Years. 257
Worldwide Flood of Noah. 260
Ongoing Creation (On Big Bang & Cosmic Origins) 264
Debunking The Theory of Old Earth Repeated Creations. 266
Part 6: Evolution Challengers: Highlighting Writings of Creation Scientists  269
The Genesis Impact by Genesis Apologetics: A Docudrama Exposing Hominids & Other Evolution Claims – Highlights. 270
Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen Meyer – Book Highlights & Commentary  276
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism by Jonathan Wells PhD – Book Highlights & Commentary. 289
Is Genesis History? Documentary Highlights. 300
Genesis History: Geology. 300
Genesis History: Biology. 305
Genesis History: Astronomy. 308
Genesis History: History. 309
Scientific Creationism by Henry Morris – Book Highlights & Commentary  310
Introductory Chapters (1-3). 310
Ch. 4 Accident or Plan?. 311
Ch. 5 Uniformism or Catastrophism?. 316
Ch. 6 Old or Young: How to Date a Rock. 317
Ch. 7 Apes or Man.. 322
Ch. 8 Creation According to Scripture. 326
Darwin’s Black Box by Biochemist Michael Behe – Book Highlights & Commentary  330
Ch.’s 1-2 The Box is Opened. 331
Part 2 – Examining the Contents of the Box (Ch. 3-7). 337
Ch. 3 Flagella. 337
Ch. 4 Blood. 338
Ch. 5-7 From Here to There; A Dangerous World; Roadkill 338
Part 3 What Does the Box Tell Us (Ch. 8-11). 340
Ch. 8-10 Publish or Perish; Intelligent Design; Questions about Design  340
Ch. 11 Science Philosophy and Religion.. 342
Afterward. 344
Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson – Book Highlights & Commentary  346
Ch. 1- 4. 346
Ch. 5 The ‘Fact’ of Evolution.. 350
Ch. 7 The Molecular Evidence. 354
Ch. 8 Pre-biological Evolution. 356
Ch. 9 The Rules of Science. 359
Ch. 10 Darwinist Religion.. 364
Ch. 11 Darwinist Education.. 365
Ch. 12 Science & Pseudoscience. 366
Additional Creation Writer Highlights. 367
Ark in the Darkness Documentary Highlights. 368
Dragons or Dinosaurs? Creation or Evolution? By Darek Isaacs – Documentary Highlights & Commentary. 375
Review of Universal Model: A New Millennial Science Textbooks Vols. 1 & 2 by Dean Sessions  380
By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator on Hoover Institution – Lecture Highlights 2022. 390
Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial by NOVA – Highlights & Analysis  391
Closing Thoughts. 395
Additional Resources. 396

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