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Just a quote for anyone who's interested, this is from "Man his origin and destiny": "All life comes from God and he did not create it temporally, that was achieved through the violation of a law. There is no Redeemer other than Jesus Christ for this earth and since Adam could not have brought death on pre-Adamite life, such life could not obtain the blessings of the resurrection. Yet the Lord has declared that through the atonement all things partaking of the fall will be redeemed. So there were no pre-Adamites. Another thing I wish to say. A man cannot serve God and mammon. Organic evolution is destructive of faith in God. It is rebellion against him. Those who accept this pernicious doctrine cannot consistently believe in the fall of Adam. If they do not believe in the fall of Adam they cannot believe in Jesus Christ, for if Adam had not transgressed the law under which he was placed on this earth, there would have been no occasion for a redemption. How could Adam be redeemed from something that never happened. We are taught that had not Adam partaken of the forbidden fruit all things would have remained in the condition in which they were before the fall." Joseph Fielding Smith, Man, His Origin and Destiny, p.279 - 280

While these are all neat ideas, about Adams children mixing with others, or others existing before Adam, I find them inconsistent with the scriptures, for instance, 2 Nephi says: 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. Also in Moses: 7 And I, the Lord God, formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living dsoul, the first flesh upon the earth, the first man also; nevertheless, all things were before created; but spiritually were they created and made according to my word. If anyone would like to read further, President Smith wrote a book entitled "Man, His Origin and Destiny", which deals with all these topics, he is very clear that Adam and Eve are the first parents of any and everyone who ever has or will live on this earth.