Hel. 8:2; Moses 6:63; Psalm 19:1-2: D&C 88:7-13,42-47; Articles of Faith, Talmage, p.30; Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pp.197-198; Ensign, Aug. 1992, p. 2
“All of beauty in the Earth bears the fingerprint of the Master Creator.” (Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, May 1978, p.59)
“Just a bit nearer to the sun, and Planet Earth’s seas would soon be boiling; just a little farther out, and the whole would would become a frozen wilderness… . ‘If our orbit happened to be the wrong shape … then we should alternately freeze like Mars and fry like Venus once a year. Fortunately for us, our planet’s orbit is very nearly a circle. The 21 percent of oxygen is another critical figure. Animals would have difficulty breathing if the oxygen content fell very far below that value. But an oxygen level much higher than this would also be disastrous, since the extra oxygen would act as a fire-raising material. Forests and grasslands would flare up every time lightning struck during a dry spell, and life on earth would become extremely hazardous.’” (Neal A. Maxwell, quoting the British scientist Alan Hayward in First Nephi, The Doctrinal Foundation, BYU Religious Studies Center, p. 7)