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If it's true that the temporal existence of man on Earth will only be a total of 7,000 years (Doctrine and Covenants 77:7), then Adam, "the primal parent of our race" (Source), could not have been created more than 7,000 years ago. However, how does that make sense when we have discovered human fossil remains as old as 300,000 years? (Source) In other words, how do these 300,000 year old human fossil remains fit on the timeline with Adam being the father of the human race when it is thought he lived on this Earth no more than 7,000 years ago (give or take a few years based on calendar discrepancies)? And is it true that the Second Coming will come to pass after these 7,000 years? If so, how close are we to it happening? “Many scholars agree that there were approximately 4,000 years from Adam to Christ” (Source). Take 4,000 years from Adam to Christ plus 2,017 years from Christ to present time and we are in year 6017 out of 7,000 years. Am I understanding it correctly that we have approximately 983 years left to go until the Second Coming? Doctrine and Covenant 77:7 Q. What are we to understand by the seven seals with which it was sealed? A. We are to understand that the first seal contains the things of the first thousand years, and the second also of the second thousand years, and so on until the seventh.