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Here is another link from the LDS.org website. It talks about the "Theory of evolution" try reading it and let me know what you think. LDS.org - Ensign Article - “Seek Ye Diligentlyâ€

I am new to this site, and thought that it was a good site, but am changing my mind. I posted one point that was my opinion and was attacked for it. You have no idea who I am or what my education is and you attack me. Gerald Brenan said "Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say their own ideas and other people’s values." This is the feeling that I have gotten from a couple of you. I don't Know if you are LDS or not, but this is what an apostle said in general conference and is therefore scripture: Ensign » 1984 » November The Pattern of Our Parentage Elder Boyd K. Packer "After Their Own Kind No lesson is more manifest in nature than that all living things do as the Lord commanded in the Creation. They reproduce “after their own kind.” (See Moses 2:12, 24.) They follow the pattern of their parentage. Everyone knows that; every four-year-old knows that! A bird will not become an animal nor a fish. A mammal will not beget reptiles, nor “do men gather … figs of thistles.” (Matt. 7:16.) In the countless billions of opportunities in the reproduction of living things, one kind does not beget another. If a species ever does cross, the offspring cannot reproduce. The pattern for all life is the pattern of the parentage. This is demonstrated in so many obvious ways, even an ordinary mind should understand it. Surely no one with reverence for God could believe that His children evolved from slime or from reptiles. (Although one can easily imagine that those who accept the theory of evolution don’t show much enthusiasm for genealogical research!) The theory of evolution, and it is a theory, will have an entirely different dimension when the workings of God in creation are fully revealed. Since every living thing follows the pattern of its parentage, are we to suppose that God had some other strange pattern in mind for His offspring? Surely we, His children, are not, in the language of science, a different species than He is?" This is a stupid argument in the first place, because either way it won't affect where I end up after this life. It can be argued forever and the "Intellectuals" will never be convinced.

The scriptures say God made man in his image... not God made ape in his image, and man evolved from ape.

Has there been a new Bishop called?

I received a phone call from my elder's quorum president. He was calling me to be a teacher in the elder's quorum. I thought that callings like this were supposed to be issued by the bishop, at church and not over the phone. I am wondering who issues callings, and how should they be issued? Thanks