by Dan Wees | Nov 9, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The decision reached by the First Presidency, and announced to this morning’s assembly, was in answer to a specific question that obviously the doctrine of the existence of races of human beings upon the earth prior to the Fall of Adam was not a doctrine of the...
by Dan Wees | Nov 9, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“First, the fossil remains of prehistoric life on earth show that in the oldest rocks are remains of the simplest forms of life; and as the rocks become younger, more complex or more advanced life forms seem to appear. The scale of life seems to ascend from amoeba to...
by Dan Wees | Nov 8, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[T]here are speculations which touch the origin of life and the relationship of God to his children. In a very limited degree that relationship has been defined by revelation, and until we receive more light upon the subject we deem it best to refrain from the...
by Dan Wees | Nov 8, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Doubt has been thrown upon the Mosaic account of the creation, the whole religious world has been agitated and in many instances faith in the scriptures has been destroyed by this theory of the eminent philosopher (not scientist), Charles Darwin.” ~George Q. Cannon,...
by Dan Wees | Nov 7, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The theory of Evolution, that man in our present state upon the earth, is but the sequence and outgrowth of steady advancement from the lowest order of creation, till the present type of man, and that we have advanced step by step from the lowest order of creation...
by Dan Wees | Nov 7, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“We have the general characteristics of the human form, and we do not look like the original of man according to Darwin’s idea; we do not look like the monkey or baboon, from which Darwin says man originated.” Orson Pratt – 6 April 1874, Journal of Discourses...
