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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm Mormon (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), and I know I don't speak for all members, but personally I accept Evolution. 
The Church leadership has no official policy on it.  Therefore many members may have different views on Evolution.

I think Science and Religion seek to answer two fundamentally different questions, Science = How?  Religion = Why? (and by Whom?)  And I think when either of them try to stray into the territory of the other they are outside their own bounds.  It is NOT the job of science to [b]disprove[/b] God.  Nor is it the place of good-religion to try to invalidate good-science. 
I believe that God created the Earth and all things that are on it ... I do not presume to know HOW God did it, nor is it my place to limit God, or the tools that He had at His disposal to accomplish that creation.   When ALL things are revealed, I fully expect that we will see that God performed the creation by natural and scientific laws (some of which we may not fully understand at this point).   I don't think God's miracles are accomplished contrary to natural laws, but in accordance with higher laws. 
I think the purpose of the Genesis story is to 1st teach us WHO is the Creator, and in whose image we are made, and 2nd to teach us WHY He created this world for us, that this life is a test to see if we will obey His commandments.   The Genesis story is definitely NOT an instruction manual, or a technical document.  We are His children ... 
If I were an architect and my 2 year old daughter asked me how a skyscraper was built, I would not talk to her about "structural integrity" and such, I would probably sit down and use her wooden blocks to build a model of the building, a very simplified representation that I think would be appropriate to her limited understanding.  ... how much further above our current intellectual understanding is God from us, further than we are from a 2 year old?

[size=small]*These are my personal views and are not meant to speak for the LDS church as a whole, or even for any portion of it's members.[/size]

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