“The Lord has revealed enough about the creation so that we can understand the fall and he has revealed enough about the fall so that we can understand the Atonement. Beyond this, we don’t know. We do know that Adam was the first man upon this earth and that he was created by God and is the image of God, he did not descend from an inferior being.”

Bruce R. McConkie – 1 June 1980, “Seven Deadly Heresies” Brigham Young University: A House of Faith (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1 June 1980), 169.