See also the hymn from last post.
6 Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise.
*cough* evolution *cough*
8 And now, it has hitherto been wisdom in God that these things should be preserved; for behold, they have enlarged the memory of this people, yea, and convinced many of the error of their ways, and brought them to the knowledge of their God unto the salvation of their souls.
Long term memory is really overrated. Keep a diary and a scrapbook. I’m really glad Miriam does such a good job of documenting our lives.
25 I will bring forth out of darkness unto light all their secret works and their abominations; and except they repent I will destroy them from off the face of the earth; and I will bring to light all their secrets and abominations, unto every nation that shall hereafter possess the land.
Cf Mark 4:22 and Luke 12:2-3
38 And now, my son, I have somewhat to say concerning the thing which our fathers call a ball, or director—or our fathers called it Liahona, which is, being interpreted, a compass; and the Lord prepared it.
L-YH-HNH? (To Jah Behold!) = “Look to God and Live” ?
Spherical Astrolabe, by Musa, Eastern Islamic, 1480/81
October 27, 2008 at 5:19 am |
I really enjoyed much of what you have written, but the evolution idea is quite false. According to many statements from the Brethren, a basic doctrine of the Fall is that death didn’t exist in the world until after the Adam. The majority of the theory of Evolution is based on the idea of “natural selection” whose most basic ingredient is death. If the strong survive, and the weak survive, and no one dies– “superior genes” cannot be concentrated down into one species, and eventually another, and another. The institue OT manual is an awesome jump-off point for research. You can download them at:
http://institute.lds.org/manuals/index.asp
By the way– I loved your broccoli-flower thing picture, awesome comparison!
your brother,
Cal
October 27, 2008 at 5:53 am |
See the Korihor post for discussion about this. There is hardly any unity among the “Bretheren” on this subject, as there has never been any revelation on the means by which God created the earth and the life on it. See, for example, this account.
Since the advent of gene sequencing, evolution is demonstrable fact. Because the only other alternative is a deceptive God, I have to accept evolution. Why else would he put the same endogenous retrovirus across all mammals, another across only primates, and another across only the homo genus? We’ve actually seen such retrviruses enter the gene pool in koalas. If you deny this stuff, you’re deluding yourself.
It may very well be that in the Millenial state, different physics will apply. That’s fine by me; I’d love to see how to get around the entropy problem. But the animals living on this world today, including humans, evolved.