# The Position of Adam in Latter-day Saint Scripture and Theology ## Description Rodney Turner's 1953 Master's thesis at BYU. ## Sample Text Many claim that Brigham Young was misquoted. This has been so frequently claimed that Rodney Turner, a professor at BYU, felt he should address it in his M.A. thesis: "It is the writer's opinion that the answer to this question is a categorical no. There is not the slightest evidence from Brigham Young, or any other source, that either his original remarks on April 9, 1852, or any of his subsequent statements were ever misquoted in the official publications of the Church... "In the light of Brigham Young's attitude toward the errors of others, and in view of the division created by his remarks concerning Adam, it would be stretching one's credulity to the breaking point to believe that he would have remained silent had he been misquoted… Brigham Young would surely have referred to those misquotations at sometime or other—he never did… The complete absence of any real evidence to the contrary obliges the writer to conclude that Brigham Young has not been misquoted in the official publications of the Church..." ("The Position of Adam in Latter-day Saint Scripture and Theology," M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University, August, 1953, pages 45-47) ## Thesis ## Download thesis from BYU Harold B. Lee Library You can download a PDF of Turner's thesis [here](http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/MTNZ&CISOPTR=25531&filename=25532.pdf).