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Yes. Mormons believe that God makes Himself subject to natural law, operates by science, and that there is no conflict between science and religion.

Mormons also believe that we existed as spirit sons and daughters of God long before the world was created, and that the method by which our mortal bodies were created is nearly irrelevent. What is relevent is our ability to live by faith, and adhere to God's commandments while inhabiting these mortal tablernacles.

Evolutionary Biology as understood by contemporary science is taught in biology courses at Brigham Young University. A symbolic view of the Genesis accounts of creation is easy to reconcile with Godly scientific truth.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly called the "Mormon" Church) has produced Official Church statements about evolution, being declared in the early 20th Century, when Darwinian evolutionary theories were becoming the rage, but now the Church statements tend to focus on issues it considers to be more pressing (mostly moral issues) and leaves much of doctrinal interpretation up to the individual.

Very rarely has the First Presidency (the highest 3 officials) released official statements on evolution, but here are parts of the only ones:

"The statement: 'There were not pre-Adamites upon the earth' is not a doctrine of the Church. Neither side of the controversy has been accepted as a doctrine at all."

--The First Presidency 1930

"Whether the mortal bodies of man evolved in natural processes to present perfection, and whether they were born here in mortality, as other mortals have been, are questions not fully answered in the revealed word of God."

--The First Presidency 1910

In November 1909, the Church issued a formal pronouncement on evolution called 'The Origin of Man.' Then in 1954, Church leaders published a book entitled 'Man: His Origin and Destiny.' These bring up some very valid points on the issue of evolution in light of what Church members regard as gospel truths. They reaffirm the Church doctrine that all things were created spiritually before anything was created temporally (Pearl of Great Price, Moses 3:5), mankind was created in the image of God and did not become that way by chance (Genesis 1:27) that there was no death found on the earth before the fall of Adam (Moses 6:48; Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 2:22), and that all things were created in their own sphere and after their own kind (Genesis 1:25; Pearl of Great Price, Abraham 4:12; Doctrine and Covenants 93:30). The idea that all life forms descend form a single organism is also rejected due to 1 Corinthians 15:39, which says "All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, and other of fishes, and other of birds."

In the book "Mormon Doctrine", which has been published in several different editions, it states "There is no harmony between the truths of revealed religion and the theories of organic evolution." Former Church President Joseph Fielding Smith is quoted as saying "No man can consistantly accept the doctrine of the evolutionist and also believe in the divine mission of our Redeemer." (see 'Doctrines of Salvation', Vol 1 Chp 9) Henry Eyring, a noted American scientist and father of current Church leader Henry B. Eyring said "As a devout Latter-day Saint, the important fact for me is that the Lord is directing the affairs in His Universe, not exactly how He does it. Whether or not some organic evolution was used or is operating seems to me beside the point." (see 'Mormon Scientist', pp.173) This seems to be the opinion of most Church members today. They believe that God is the creator of the earth and of life on it - exactly how He created it doesn't matter a whole lot.

Despite the clarity of the Church's position on this matter, in some areas, the topic of 'evolution' been controversially received in Sunday School discussion for over a century. The Church encourages education and study, both secular and spiritual. In fact, many prominent Church leaders have advanced degrees in science and medicine. Church doctrine states that truth is found in both religion and science, and that, overall, it is up to the individual to determine for themselves what of science is truth and what is theory.

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Mormons do not believe in evolution. We believe in what The Bible and The Book of Mormon (sometimes called the Mormon bible) tell us about the creation of the universe, the fall of Adam (which was a good thing, some churches say that the fall was a bad thing ... But in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were not able to have children. If they never partook of the fruit of the tree of knowlege of good and evil, and been cast out of the Garden of Eden, they never would've had children, and none of us would be here), and believe all the teachings of the King James version of the Bible.

I'm fairly new to the church, but my understanding is that we are created in the image of our creator then when we are given a body here on earth, we leave Jesus Christ and come to earth to live in our humanly form. When we die we move on to one of three celestial kingdoms. The three kingdoms we reside in afterwards when we die, depends on our Godly works while we are on earth.

One Australian member of the Church wrote a book called, "Two Birds ... One Stone!" in 2007, in which, having background as a kinesiological scientist, he illustrated over a 10 year study that the typical groundsnake and man proved to be virtual opposites of one another - both behaviourally, and anatomical-functionally. If this were so, it would tend to support the King James description - the Adam and Eve account - wherein the serpent enticed Adam and Eve to oppose God. It would affirm that when God cursed all things following the Fall, He depicted in symbolic form, the centrality of this very episode to Man's existence and condition.

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Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormon" church) believe that the world was created as described in the book of Genesis in the Holy Bible. Some Mormons believe that the world was literally created in six days, and others believe that 'days' is not literally 24 hours but longer period of time. Most commonly, Mormons believe that the earth was created in six thousand years, since the Bible says that a day on earth is as a thousand years in heaven (2 Peter 3:8).

Mormons do not believe evolution as it is commonly taught. They do not believe that men evolved from apes or that one animal can evolve from another (for example, fish and dogs do not have a common ancestor), since the Bible says that all things multiply after their own kind. Many Mormons do believe that things change over time, and that different species of the same animal can evolve and create new species (for example, a Golden Retriever and a Great Dane could have a common ancestor.)

Mormons believe in ultimate truth, and believe that since scientific understanding is always changing, it will one day harmonize with God's truth, which never changes.

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The answer above reflects the view of many Mormons. Others devout Mormons believe that the Genesis account of creation is more symbolic than literal, and that there can be no conflict between science and religion, because true religion IS true science.

Mormon doctrine holds that we existed as spirit sons and daughters of God before the worlds were created, and that the method by which our mortal bodies were created (whether from dirt or from monkeys) is not terribly significant. What is significant is what decisions we make while in these bodies of flesh and bone, not the specific method by which they came to exist.

A long view of humanity -- one which sees us as eternal in BOTH directions -- makes the question of evolution irrelevent.

For what it's worth, scientific evolution as currently understood by evolutionary biologists is taught at Brigham Young University.

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