I found this on the origin of man. This was published in 1909 by the First Presidency of the Church. Now if man is made in the image of God and man evolved from apes then God is an ape? right? Sorry Rich, I couldn't resist. My skies have been too clear lately. Debbie http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates$fn=default.htm$xhitlist_q...

From: Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> Date: 2005/08/28 Sun PM 10:59:07 MDT To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Evolution statement excludes 'design'

For the record, no LDS prophet (speaking as such) has, to my knowledge anyway (and I've researched this a fair bit), ever said that "evolution isn't true".

That said, there have been some church leaders who have made statements to that effect; most notably, Joseph Fielding Smith (in his awful work "Man, His Origin and Destiny", which at the time was strongly countered by Apostle James E. Talmage, a geologist), his son-in-law Bruce McConkie (backing JFS up) in "Mormon Doctrine", and more recently, Boyd K. Packer at a talk at BYU several years ago. Both the books cited were categorized by church prophets David O. McKay and Spencer W. Kimball as "the author's opinion" only.

The "official" position of the LDS Church is "we really don't know".

FWIW, -Rich

--- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:

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I haven't yet read Ms. Toomer-Cook's article, but-

I'm in discussion right now with a person who has met with Buttars. Waiting for permission to quote this person on the list, but for now I can tell you that, by Buttars' own admission, Buttars said that the reason he doesn't believe in evolution is because an LDS prophet stated once that it isn't true.

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