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|subject=Doctrine & Covenants 77:6 refers to "this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance"
|subject=Doctrine & Covenants 77:6 refers to "this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance"
|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?
|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?
|sublink1=Question: 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?
|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?
|sublink2=Question: Was Brigham Young a "young earth creationist"?
|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"
|sublink3=Question: How do dinosaurs fit into God's plan?
|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?"
|sublink3=Improvement Era 1909 regards an ancient earth as consistent with scripture
|sublink4=John A. Widtsoe in Improvement Era 1909 on the age of the earth
|sublink5=Charles W. Penrose in Improvement Era 1909 on the age of the earth
|sublink6=James E. Talmage, a geologist, spoke of the earth forming from other bodies
|sublink7=Question: Was Brigham Young a "young earth creationist"?
|sublink8=Question: How do dinosaurs fit into God's plan?
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The creation of the earth and related issues


Creation and related issues


Doctrine & Covenants 77:6 refers to "this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance"

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?

Death before the Fall

Summary: Does LDS doctrine hold that there was no death before the Fall of Adam?

Did Adam and Eve really exist

Summary: Do Latter-day Saints believe that Adam and Eve were real?

Evolution

Summary: How does the Church reconcile the theory of evolution with the story of Adam?

Fall of Adam and Eve

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?

Global or local Flood

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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