Evolution - The Vain Philosophies of Men

The whole scriptures plainly teach us that we are the children of that God who framed the world.  God has created man in His own image, upright.  There never was a time such as many of our philosophers speak of, who drift back and back, and come to this theory and that theory, and go back, and back to the time when we were all reptiles.  When was there a time when there was not a God?  But, say they, there must have been a time.  Then you declare to me, do you, that there was a time when there was no time.  And this is the philosophy of a great many of the scientific in this day.  They see the Heavens stretched out, but they comprehend them not.
     No human being has had power to organize his own existence.  Then there is a greater than we.  Are we our own in our bodies?  Are we our own in our spirits?  We are not our own.  We belong to our progenitors - to our Father and our God.
     Let us look round and see whether we can find a father and son in this congregation.  Do we see one an elephant, and the other a hen? No.  Does a father that looks like a human being have a son like an ape, going on all fours?  No; the son looks like his father.  There is an endless variety of distinction in the few features that compose the human face, yet children have in their countenances and general expression of figure and temperament a greater or less likeness of their parents.  You do not see brutes spring from human beings.  Every species is true to its kind.  The children of men are featured alike and walk erect.
     The Bible clearly teaches us that we are the children of the very Being who framed this Earth and peopled it.  Such teachings may be found in hundreds of places in the scriptures, and yet we do not know anything about our Father!  Is it not astonishing?

Brigham Young

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