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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/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/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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