I know the LDS church has no official views on evolution. I had someone ask me what I thought about it, and frankly, I haven't given much thought about it. As I understand, there are people at BYU who believe in evolution, but I think they believe that evolution has limits, and don't rule out that God created the world.
So how do people reconcile evolution with creationism? What do you think about "intelligent design"?
Monday, January 21, 2008
LDS views on evolution
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I know this is a little bit late, (almost 1 year later) but I just ran into your site.
I have a biology degree from Boise State, but went to Ricks and BYU-H. I have obviously had many classes if not the subject of Evolution, and least related to it. Most people do not understand what evolution is. it is the change of the ratios of genes in a population of animals. (we will assume humans are also animals for this).
I will try to keep this short, but I could go on for pages if you wanted me to get more in to it. it is easy to see evolution as a small change. Say for example the English Peppered moth. for many years, most of them were white with black spots. There were some black with white spots, but they stood out to predators, because the trees they hid on were white. Then along came the industrial revolution, and the trees they lived on now had a bunch of pollution, turning them black. Now the white moths stood out to predators, and the black ones survived better. That is considered evolution. Now say that some black ones were isolated from white ones, say an earthquake happened or something, and they were separated for 5000 years. Because of random gene mutation, or whatever other reason (there are many) after this amount of time, they cannot interbreed. You bring them back together, and since the genes have changed so much, they cannot have a "mixed" breed. That is also evolution.
Now, here is my question, why can't people see that evolution may be the way that God created the Earth? Gods time is not the same as man's time.
The other thing that I want to mention, is something that I asked a professor about in Hawaii. We talked about Evolution, and I asked this same question to him that you are putting out. How does evolution tie in with church doctrine? He explained a few things, but the main point was that God uses the principle of adoption for many things. (I won't give any examples, but there are some) God may have adopted one species to use to place His spirit children in.
This probably doesn't answer your question completely, but hopefully it gives a little insight into it. If you want more discussion, you can send me a message, and we can get into more detail about it.
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