Mormons and Evolution

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As has been noted by some, the obstacles confronting intelligent design are not merely limited to scientific verifiability. In addition to ...

Jared has a nice post on the changing publication history of a very interesting quote from Brigham Young, and Jeffrey and Clark give some...

Elder Boyd K. Packer has commented on evolution on a number of occasions. Below I provide relevant excerpts from all of the talks that I am ...

In a recent post that took Alma’s encounter with Korihor as a springboard, my discussion of the possible evolution of Joseph’s views on the...

Since Geoff B mentioned me by name, I feel inclined to respond. Statements from his post are in italics, and my responses follow. As an exa...

Suggesting a resonance with the Intelligent Design approach to biology, Matt Evans mentions Alma’s teleological argument to Korihor in Alma...

1909 marked the centennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the semicentennial of the publication of Origin of Species . According to Gary ...

While some theories may be backed by what appears to be science, this does not in any way make that theory itself scientific.  Take for inst...

The same month (April 1911) that Joseph F. Smith's editorial appeared in the Improvement Era , he published a separate editorial in the ...