Ken and I have been watching a DVD seried called "Is Genesis History." They have geological evidence that the earth is not millions of years old because of Mount St. Helens' eruption in the 1980s. The changes in the geography it created in the surrounding area within a less than a decade are exactly the same geologic structures that are in the Grand Canyon, and other places, which they say took millions of years to form.
Why is this important?
The theory of evolution is based on an athiestic foundation. If you take out the creation, you also take out Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. If you take out those, you take out God. If you take out God, you take out accountability to God. That removes the moral anchors based on that accountability to God.
Our society is now in the extreme results from that. Marriage is not reserved to be between a man and a woman. People of the same gender can marry. In fact, now they are saying there is no absolute thing of gender, but there is "gender fluidity."
2 Ne 2:13 states the foundation of our belief of the existance of things must be on the existance of God.
...And if these things are not there is no God. And if there is no God we are not, neither the earth; for there could have been no creation of things...
The verse above states clearly that without God there is no earth.
The Genesis is History people are proving their point through the Bible only. As LDS people, we know the Bible is the "word of God as far as it is translated correctly." (8th Article of Faith) That can give some justification to say the creation story is symbolic, not literal. However, we believe the Book of Mormon to be pure revelation from God. We don't have the "wiggle room" to alter its meaning like we assume we do with the Bible.
The defense of those that believe in evolution is that it is the method God used to create the earth. Refutation of that goes back to the foundation of the theory is that there is no God. The fruits of that theory speaks for the validity of that theory.
In Matthew 7 Jesus tells us the foundation of a theory matters.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Now those verses are quoted with replacing the word "tree" with the word "theory" and "fruit" with "paradigms." It helps us to see that "paradigms" result in either righteous and moral people, or in wicked and amoral people.
16 Ye shall know them by their paradigms. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good theory bringeth forth good paradigms; but a corrupt theory bringeth forth evil paradigms.
18 A good theory cannot bring forth evil paradigms, neither can a corrupt theory bring forth good paradigms.
19 Every theory that bringeth not forth good paradigms is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their paradigms ye shall know them.
Instead of man evolving from ape, who evolvd from aomebia, Lehi speaks of Adam and Eve as real and specific people.
2 Ne 2
19 And after Adam and Eve had partaken of the forbidden fruit they were driven out of the garden of Eden, to till the earth.
20 And they have brought forth children; yea, even the family of all the earth.
There were not generations of transforming animals which created people who became the human family we know now. Lehi said so.
The theory of evolution has no segment in it for the Garden of Eden.
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