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| |link=Mormonism and science/Creation and related issues
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| |heading=Creation and related issues
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| |sublink1=Doctrine & Covenants 77:6 refers to "this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance"
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| |sublink2=Death before the Fall
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| |sublink3=Belief in a literal Adam and Eve
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| |sublink4=Fall of Adam and Eve
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| |sublink5=Mormonism and the reconciliation of the Flood of Noah with scripture and Church teachings
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| |sublink6=The Mormon view of "Creatio ex nihilo"
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| |sublink7=Evolution (official statements)
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| |sublink8=''Un''official primary sources on evolution
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| |link=Mormonism and science/Age of the Earth
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| |subject=Doctrine & Covenants 77:6 refers to "this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance"
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| |summary=Do Latter-day Saints believe that the Earth is only 6,000 years old? Why does Doctrine and Covenants section 77 say that the history of the earth covers only seven thousand years?
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| |sublink1=Question: How do we reconcile the actual age of the earth to the "seven thousand years of its continuance" mentioned in D&C 77:6?
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| |sublink1=Brigham Young (1871): "whether the Lord...made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject"
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| |sublink2=John S. Lewis: "Considering that Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 refers to “…this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence,” what led Phelps to speak of Earth as 2,555 million years old?"
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| |sublink3=Improvement Era 1909 regards an ancient earth as consistent with scripture
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| |sublink4=John A. Widtsoe in Improvement Era 1909 on the age of the earth
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| |sublink5=Charles W. Penrose in Improvement Era 1909 on the age of the earth
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| |sublink6=James E. Talmage, a geologist, spoke of the earth forming from other bodies
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| |sublink7=Question: Was Brigham Young a "young earth creationist"?
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| |sublink8=Question: How do dinosaurs fit into God's plan?
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| |link=Mormonism and science/Death before the Fall
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| |subject=Death before the Fall
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| |summary=Does LDS doctrine hold that there was no death before the Fall of Adam?
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| |sublink1=Question: What does the Church teach on the subject of death before the Fall of Adam?
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| |sublink2=Question: Was there no death on the entire earth before the Fall?
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| |sublink3=Question: What was the state of things on the Earth prior to the placement of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?
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| |sublink4=Question: What changes have been made to the ''Gospel Principles'' manual?
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| |sublink5=Question: Is the concept of no death before the fall on the ''entire earth'' Church doctrine?
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| |sublink6=Question: Did procreation exist before the Fall of Adam?
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| |sublink7=Question: How does the Church explain the existence of human-like beings on the earth prior to Adam?
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| |sublink8=First Presidency statement (1931): "Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no one of which has to do with the salvation of the souls of mankind, to scientific research"
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| |link=Mormonism and science/Did Adam and Eve really exist
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| |subject=Belief in a literal Adam and Eve
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| |summary=Do Latter-day Saints believe that Adam and Eve were real?
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| |sublink1=Question: Can Latter-day Saints have a non-literal view of the creation story, or have a somewhat more mythic view of the first five books of Moses given the Church's teaching of a historical Adam?
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| |sublink2=Question: What is the Church's position on Adam and Eve?
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| |sublink3=Source:First Presidency statement:1931:Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no one of which has to do with the salvation of the souls of mankind, to scientific research
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| |sublink4=Question: How does the Church explain the existence of human-like beings on the earth prior to Adam?
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| |link=Plan of salvation/Fall of Adam and Eve
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| |subject=Fall of Adam and Eve
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| |summary=If it was God's plan for Eve to eat the fruit, then why did God forbid it? Why did God not simply create Adam and Eve as mortals?
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| |sublink1=Question: If God intended the Fall of Adam and Eve, why did he forbid the fruit? Why did he not simply create them as mortals?
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| |sublink2=Question: If "the wages of sin is death" as described in Romans 6:23, and the fall of Adam and Eve was a transgression rather than a sin, then why did it introduce death into the world?
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| |sublink3=Question: How did the transgression of Adam and Eve introduce sin into the world?
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| |sublink4=Question: If the transgression of Adam and Eve was actually a blessing for them, then why did they feel guilty and afraid when God approached them in the Garden of Eden after they committed their transgression?
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| |sublink5=Question: If the transgression of Adam and Eve resulted in physical and spiritual death, then why are we only subject to spiritual death for eternity if we do not repent?
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| |sublink6=Question: Did procreation exist before the Fall of Adam?
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| |link=Mormonism and science/Global or local Flood
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| |subject=Mormonism and the reconciliation of the Flood of Noah with scripture and Church teachings
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| |summary=How do we deal with the fact that there is no scientific evidence of a worldwide flood? How can the scriptures and prophets teach of a worldwide flood, when this contradicts the evidence? The biodiversity of plants and animals on the earth could not have occurred within the span of a few thousand years. Did the continents separate during the flood of Noah? Doctrine and Covenants 133:23–24 seems to imply that they did. How do we reconcile this to scientific fact? Didn't Brigham Young, John Taylor and Orson Pratt teach that the Flood was the baptism of the Earth?
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| |sublink1=Question: Why does the Church teach that the flood was a global event?
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| |sublink2=Question: Are Church members required to believe in a global flood?
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| |sublink3=Question: How could the Garden of Eden have been in Missouri if the Flood was local?
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| |sublink4=Question: Doesn't the Bible say that the continents were divided immediately after the Flood?
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| |sublink5=Question: How did ancient people of the Old and New Worlds view the "the world"?
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| |link= Mormonism and science/Evolution/Official stance
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| |subject=Evolution (official statements)
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| |summary=What is the Church's stance on the theory of organic evolution?
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| |sublink1=Question: What is the Church's stance on the theory of organic evolution?
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| |link= Evolution:Primary_sources
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| |subject= ''Un''official primary sources on evolution
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| |summary=This page collects the text of various statements about evolution made by a variety of Church leaders and members. These are unofficial statements, but serve to show the variety of opinions that have been expressed on the topic.
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