Creation

Hey Gramps! I want to know why people have to not like Mormons. When did the world begin? How did it all start? If you can't answer these questions I understand no one else has had answers. Thanks for your time. From Lori, Quicktel.com [answer]

Dear Gramps, Why did God make people? Why do we have churches? Why did god make animals? Why was earth made? Why do we live on earth ? Jennifer, @ptialaska.net [answer]

Gramps, Would you please clarify the origins of Adam and Eve? Were they transplanted here? Were their physical bodies created from the elements of this earth? Were the elements of this earth also immortal and when they fell, did it fall also? Anything else you would like to expand on this subject is appreciated. Spudgam @micron.net [answer]

Gramps, I have had numerous people ask me about the Dinosaur bones and the age of the earth. I am not sure what book I read, I think Gospel Doctrine, but it stated the earth as being only 5000 to 6000 years old. If so, how can bones be found that date back millions of years? I have been told that the earth was created from existing matter that had the bones in it. Any ideas on how to answer this question? Thanks nknight @uswest [answer]

Dear Gramps, I sure like to add another question concerning the age of the earth, for the answer of Brigham Young that you gave to the earlier question on the same subject does not satisfy my curiosity, namely, you said: “death came with the fall of Adam” . . .At the BBC TV, not available for you I guess, there is an animation series going on about the dinosaur, drawn with the latest computer techniques, then we must conclude for ourselves that the pre-historic animals must have lived also in Adam and Eve times in the terrestrial world, or not? Otherwise where is the logic, should Spock (Startrek) say? Tell me, and thanks for the fine job you are doing now. Elder Anton van Wamelen, Bruges branch, Antwerp Stake [answer]

Gramps, When we were created did we have a spirit body or were we simply in spirit form? William [answer]

Gramps, I read your answer about the dinosaurs. In the answer you quoted Brigham Young regarding the earth falling into the solar system after the fall of Adam. In the quote he says that when man fell....and let there be light. I thought the earth was made in seven days, including the light and dark.....and then Adam was placed on the earth....and then he fell.....I have it backward according to your answer. How could Adam fall before the earth was made by Jesus? dc [answer]

Dear Gramps, God either organized preexisting materials or created materials which he then organized. If he first created the materials why would he bother with then causing man to evolve. It would seem to be more efficient just to go ahead and create man "in his own image". If he did, indeed, organize preexisting materials and the whole process then became subject to evolution---wouldn't this suggest the presence of inherent powers residing within the matter itself that God could work with but not completely control? Doesn't the infinite and eternal nature of the Great Atoning Sacrifice negate such a theory? Can the tenacity with which some Latter Day Saints cling to theories of evolution be due to fear of surrendering their sense of intelligence --or ego-- to the incomprehensible? I, for one, understand this fear but feel that getting beyond it would be tremendously liberating. The fact that I am even asking you this question tells me that I am not beyond it, however, it just does not feel right to me to cling to something as changeable as scientific theory that is brought about by the miniscule understanding of the human mind. Please forgive me for corresponding on the Sabbath but my mind won't cease to dwell. Thanks, Kevann Kreeger [answer]