Mormons need not shy away from evolution, says BYU biologist

Mormons should be as friendly to evolution as any people on Earth, a Brigham Young University biologist unequivocally declared this week.They believe in “eternal progression,” for example, and that the universe was organized from pre-existing matter, Steven L. Peck told a packed audience Thursday on the Utah Valley University campus. Those are ideas embraced by evolutionary biologists, too.Peck delivered the Eugene England Memorial Lecture at a two-day conference, “Heaven &