Evolution and Mormonism

by Stephens, Trent D.

• ISBN13: 9781560851424
• ISBN10: 1560851422
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Signature Books

Author Biography

Trent D. Stephens (B.S., M.S., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Professor of Anatomy and Embryology at Idaho State University (ISU), where he was named Distinguished Teacher in 1992 and Outstanding Researcher in 2000. He is the co-author of ten textbooks. He currently serves as bishop of the Pocatello (Idaho) Century Ward D. Jeffrey Meldrum (B.S., M.S., BYU; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook) is Associate Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology at ISU and Affiliate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Idaho Museum of Natural History. He is co-editor of a series of books on paleontology. He serves as a priesthood instructor and scout master in the Pocatello Fourth Ward Forrest B. Peterson is an award-winning writer and movie producer. In 1990 his Trouble in Oz won five Crystal Reel prizes from the Florida Film Festival. His church duties have included elders quorum president and gospel doctrine teacher

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Duane E. Jeffery
Introduction	xv
Acknowledgments	xxi
The Wonder of It All	1	(6)
The Bottom Line	7	(8)
The Truth Shall Make You Free	15	(16)
When the Prophet Speaks	31	(28)
The Evidence of Things	59	(22)
What about Darwin?	81	(20)
DNA on the Witness Stand	101	(18)
Our Place in Nature	119	(12)
The Body as a Temple	131	(8)
Written in Stone	139	(26)
Genesis Revisited	165	(22)
In God's Image	187	(16)
Eternal Evolution	203	(6)
Appendix. Three Official LDS Statements on Evolution	209	(10)
References Cited	219	(12)
Index	231