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Science and the Church of Jesus Christ/Creation and related issues
Topics
Age of the Earth
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?Dinosaurs
Summary: How do dinosaurs fit into God's plan?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?Pre-Adamites
Summary: There is scientific evidence of human habitation for many thousands of years. How do we reconcile this with the idea that Adam lived approximately 6,000 years ago?Procreation before the Fall
Summary: Did procreation exist before the Fall of Adam?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?