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Most Mormons did not join the LDS Church because of doctrinal considerations. The vast majority became Latter-day Saints because they were born into the culture. Others joined for emotional and relational reasons.
“...if living organisms are the result of a directed process, then it follows that the appearance of design in living organisms is real, not merely apparent or illusory. Nevertheless, chief proponents of theistic evolution reject the theory of intelligent design with its claim that the appearance of design in living organisms is real. Thus, any proponent of theistic evolution who affirms that God is directing the evolutionary mechanism, and who also rejects intelligent design, implicitly contradicts himself.”
― Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
― Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
“What matters is that people adopt a way of eating which satisfies the appetite and which will still be effective in maintaining their health not just for a few weeks or months but in, say, thirty or forty years time.”
― My Life without Bread: Dr Lutz at 90
― My Life without Bread: Dr Lutz at 90
“if God did not at least direct the process of mutation and selection (and/or other relevant evolutionary mechanisms), but instead merely sustained the laws of nature that made them possible, then it follows that he could not know, and does not know, what those mechanisms would (or will) produce, including whether they would have produced human beings...Since in this view, nature has significant autonomy from God, and since God does not direct or control the evolutionary process, he cannot know what it will produce--a conclusion at odds with God's omniscience and providence. Similarly, since God doesn not direct the evolutionary process, what it produces cannot be said to express his specific intentions in creation--a conclusion that also stands at odds with the biblical claim that God made man expressly in his own image and 'foreknew' him.”
― Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
― Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
“It, [theistic evolution] therefore, contradicts the plainly theistic view of divine action articulated in the Bible, where God acts in his creation after the beginning of the universe. Indeed, the Bible describes God as not only acting to create the universe in the beginning; it also describes him as presently upholding the universe in its orderly concourse and also describes him as acting discretely as an agent within the natural order.”
― Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
― Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
“Theistic evolutionists, like mainstream neo-Darwinists, affirm the third meaning of evolution--i.e., the sufficiency of the natural selection/mutation mechanism (possibly in conjunction with other similarly naturalistic evolutionary mechanisms) as an explanation for the origin of new forms and features of life. Since natural selection and random mutations can account for the origin of biological systems (and their appearances of design), theistic evolutionists steadfastly deny the need to propose an actual designing intelligence.”
― Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
― Theistic Evolution: A Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Critique
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