The Infinite Fall

How can Adam be the 'first man' when science shows humans lived for hundreds of thousands of years? Biologist and Latter-day Saint Trent D. Stephens tackles this head-on, proposing that the Fall—like the Atonement—is infinite and therefore not bounded by time. Drawing on scripture, prophetic teaching, genetics, geology, and archaeology, he offers believers a framework for holding faith and science together. A thoughtful, footnote-rich apologetic for those wrestling with evolution, the age of the earth, and the Garden of Eden.

• A biologist and temple worker tackles the question that pushes many students out of the Church: evolution vs. Adam
• If the Atonement is infinite, so is the Fall—a fresh framework that dissolves the science-religion conflict
• Chauvet Cave artists lived 23,000 years before Adam—so who were they? A faithful answer
• Much of what we 'know' about the Fall isn't even in scripture—separating doctrine from tradition

“If the perceived conflict between the Fall and modern science is based upon paradigms that have no scriptural basis, maybe it's time to reconsider those unfounded paradigms and cut them loose.”

Perfect for a faithful Latter-day Saint—often a student, scientist, or parent—who feels tension between belief in Adam and the Fall and the scientific evidence for evolution and an ancient earth, and wants a faithful path to reconcile the two.