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Date: December 15, 2011 07:10PM
In 1909 the First Presidency issued the official LDS position on the origin of man. It was re-printed in 2002.
http://lds.org/ensign/2002/02/the-origin-of-man?lang=engThis statement in the article is important. "The word of the Lord declares that Adam was “the first man of all men” (Moses 1:34), and we are therefore in duty bound to regard him as the primal parent of our race."
Here is what apologists are doing with it. They claim that "our race" means a cultural group from Adam and Eve and their descendants, while the evolved apes were people too, just a different cultural group.
See page 3 (21 in the text)
http://www.mormonfortress.com/evolution.pdf"Therefore, Adam can be the “primal parent of our race” – or cultural group — without discarding the evolutionary model."
The apologists are using the pre-Adamite idea to try to bring religion and science into agreement.