I am a believer in my God, firmly. Then, along comes someone called the evolutionist and tells me evolution is a proven fact, and therefore there is no God.
One does not follow the other. If evolution is a fact -- and well it might be -- it does not mean there is not a God. Rather (supposing it is true), it means God is an evolutionist, for He created all things and if He did it by evolution, then He did it by evolution.
What should we do, then, if we learn science teaches evolution is a solid, proven, undeniable fact? I have a saying: Truth does not run from knowledge. To the contrary, it embraces it. It yearns for it. It seeks it out.
So, it should be with us. We should seek for all the knowledge we can find on this topic. I wish we, as LDS people, rather than demurring on evolution, would become the authorities on the topic. I am not only glad our schools teach evolution, but wish they taught it more intensely than in any other state, that our students became the most educated in the world on the topic. If evolution is true, and unless and until we find out it isn't, we should be soaking up everything we can learn about it.
We should not leave it to the atheists to be the authorities on how life came about. If this is knowledge about our God, we should want to be at the forefront.
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