Who Is Right In the Evolution Debate?

Many youth in the LDS church become confused when they see the living prophets and the scriptures constantly talk about Adam and Eve being created by the hand of God; while at the same time they hear in their science classes and from television that Adam and Eve never existed and that modern humans came into existence over 100,000 years ago and came to exist by a long series of accidents and were descended from a "first living cell" which existed hundreds of millions of years ago.

So who is right?

As this book will show, the theory of evolution is scientific nonsense and exists only in the vivid imaginations of scientists.

Actual scientific data from real human DNA completely supports the claims of the scriptures and the prophets that Adam and Eve, the first homo sapiens sapiens, could NOT have lived on this earth more than a few thousand years ago and could NOT have descended from animals which lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

In fact, a mathematical analysis of how the theory of evolution had to have happened (at the DNA level) will demonstrate that it is mathematically insane to believe the theory of evolution.

Scientists today use 19th century unscientific, descriptive morphology as their "evidence" for the theory of evolution and completely refuse to consider the 21st century highly technical science of mathematical and statistical DNA analysis.

When the scientific establishment talks about DNA they only assume that DNA evidence favors the theory of evolution; but the scientific facts are that the evidence of DNA is overwhelming against the theory of evolution.

About The Free eBook on This Website

The free, 400 page eBook on this website, Prophets or Evolution - An LDS Perspective, actually covers two very diverse topics.

First, the book provides a comparison of the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Latter-Day Saint or LDS) to the theory of evolution. This section is essentially a comparison of the doctrines of the LDS Church and the religious ramifications of the theory of evolution.

For example, let us consider the Book of Mormon which was published in 1830, which was 29 years before Darwin's Origin of Species book was published. The Book of Mormon, which was written by ancient prophets, primarily covers a period of American history from 600 B.C. to 400 A.D., a period of about a thousand years.

The Book of Mormon discusses the teachings of the anti-Christ Korihor. The teachings of the anti-Christ Korihor are identical to the teachings of the theory of evolution. Thus, the LDS church officially opposed the theory of evolution 29 years before Darwin published his most famous book!!

The second section of this book (which starts with Chapter 13) is much longer than the first section and deals with the scientific issues of the theory of evolution, with an occasional mention of LDS doctrine.

The scientific section makes no excuses for the theory of evolution and instead calls the theory of evolution: "scientific nonsense." Indeed, the concepts of "permutations of nucleotides," "genetic entropy," "patterns of intelligence" and "genetic chaos," all of which will be explained in detail, plus several other critical issues with regards to the scientific issues of the theory of evolution, completely render the theory of evolution as scientific nonsense.

If you want a quick summary of seven reasons the theory of evolution cannot be true, see chapter 35 of this book (chapter 35 is linked to below).

Note #1: The LDS church does not endorse any scientific book, whether for or against the theory of evolution because science is always subject to new discoveries which render old scientific doctrines obsolete. Nor does the church endorse any book which is highly critical of the scientific establishment. These are two reasons the church will never endorse an anti-evolution book such as this one even though the church is officially (and has been since 1830) anti-evolution (i.e. anti-Korihor).

Note #2: For those who are only interested in a comparison of the doctrines of the LDS church versus the doctrines of evolution, the first 12 chapters cover this topic.

Note #3: A printable version of this book (407 pages) is available in 'pdf' format and is linked to at the bottom of this web page.

Note #4: To read the official doctrine of the LDS church on the subject of the theory of evolution, the 1909 statement of the First Presidency, called "The Origin of Man," is linked to at the bottom of this web page.

Note #5: In addition to the 1909 article, an official booklet issued by the First Presidency in 2004: True to the Faith - A Gospel Reference is the very antithesis of the theory of evolution (e.g. see pages 14-20, 44-45, 56-59, etc.). This booklet is available on www.lds.org.

Note #6: One of the main characters in the Book of Mormon was the anti-Christ Korihor (Alma 30). While the main book covers the fact that Korihor taught the Theory of Evolution (remember, the Book of Mormon was published 29 years before the Origin of Species of Darwin), a special article has been written specifically to focus on a comparison of the teachings of Korihor to the teachings of the Theory of Evolution. This article demonstrates very forcefully that the teachings of Korihor and the teachings of the Theory of Evolution are identical, even though the Book of Mormon was published long before Darwin's most famous book:
Prophetic Book of Mormon Warnings

Note #7: Another website by the author of this book provides many quotes of the general authorities, especially the apostles and prophets. These quotes have nothing to do with evolution, but they are faith-promoting LDS quotes. See:
Quotes of Living Prophets

R. Webster Kehr
Topeka Kansas Stake
BYU - B.S. Mathematics, 1972
March, 2009 [Second Edition]

The official position of the LDS church on the theory of evolution:
"The Origin of Man" (Official 1909 First Presidency Statement)