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12) DESTROY FAITH: Does teaching the words of Latter-Day prophets on the subject of organic evolution destroy faith? Does teaching the doctrines contained in the scriptures concerning the age of the earth destroy faith?
Commentary Recently, many in LDS academic circles have promoted the notion that if the doctrines of a physical Creation of