When Jesus Christ was upon the earth in mortality, he became somewhat irritated with his apostles when they asked to see the Father. He told them that he looked just like his Father, and if they had seen him, they had seen the Father. (John 14:9)
We also have the testimony of Joseph Smith who met with both the Father and the Son during the First Vision. The Father is one man or personage. The Son is another. And they look alike. Both were modern men as Joseph Smith was himself. (JS-H 1:17-20)
Who but “God” could have made the heavens and the earth? And is not Jesus “God” or the Creator according to our doctrine?
Keeping this in mind, God was a modern man before this world was created. How could this be? Is not all the “scientific evidence” for Darwinian evolution here upon this earth? And if there is such evidence elsewhere in the universe, have our anthropologists, paleontologists, geologists and other scientists been able to examine that evidence?
Joseph Smith taught, “God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man… I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea… He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth. (Joseph Smith. King Follett Discourse. April 7, 1844)
I am just foolish enough to believe that if I am a child of God, and I look like my Father just as the Savior and Joseph Smith did, I was “created” in the same way too, and the pattern for that creation was set long before the earth was made or in other words long before any of the evidence we have seen for Darwinian evolution.
Presented with this argument, many have told me, “Well, he [God] must have evolved on another planet, the one where he spent his mortality. To which my answer is, but all the evidence we have is right here. Could there be missing data that is essential for understanding this?
I love debating Darwinian evolution because like arguing politics and religion, there is no end to it. Might that be the result of insufficient data? Do we need to answer every question even when we do not have enough evidence? When we travel to the stars, might we learn more about our origins?