> >Please answer a few specific questions:
> >
> >> That through prayer you may receive
> >>(through the Holy Spirit) an answer as to what is 'truth'.
> >
> >If you received, through the Holy Spirit, an answer which you later found
> >to be in conflict with the body of accepted scientific knowledge, what
> >would your reaction be?
>
Joe Dees Here.
I had a girlfriend who once told me that the reason that no mention
is made in the Bible about dinosaurs was because Adam made them
(since he lived a long time, he had plenty to figure out genetic
engineering), then buried the bones deep because he was ashamed of
playing God. Even though she was rich, I left her; all that money
wouldn't have compensated for a lifetime married to a crazy woman.
>
Well, that has yet to happen...usually
it is the other way around. Back in
> 1850 Joseph Smith received revelation that tobacco was bad for the body
> and thereby stated that we should cease its use.
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> >
> >>The Mormons believe that Adam was the father of all mankind and that
> >>Eve was the mother.
> >
> >How long ago did this happen? How did the human species survive the
> >inevitable inbreeding?
> >
>
> We don't know that exactly but some in the church have said the 'fall'
> occurred
> about 6,000 years ago. Nobody knows for sure how long the Garden of Eden
> was there prior to that (perhaps millions of years)...since Adam and Eve
> were immortal until Eve took a bite
> of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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