By this methodology, Mormonism is clearly the correct religion. If we can trust Joseph Smith's accounts, then all is already lost.
(To be fair, as zany as Mormonism is, they are among the most friendly and genuine people, as a group, from any religious group I've encountered.)
I do not consider the LDS church to be the correct religion (church?) concerning the science of evolution..
First, it does not take a positive position on the science of evolution. The neutral position in a recent statement relying on personal views allows for inconsistency in the guidance for the believers allows older guidance on the subject against the science of evolution to stand as the standard.
From:
"Mormonism and science/Evolution/Official stance"
"The LDS Church has stated that it "has no official position on evolution, and each member is entitled to his or her own personal views on the subject".
Second, over the 20th century the LDS Church has been inconsistent on the matter of science and evolution.
Joseph F Smith -
"Recently there was some trouble ... in one of the leading Church schools—the training college of the Brigham Young University—where three of the professors advanced certain theories on evolution as applied to the origin of man, and certain opinions on "higher criticism," as conclusive and demonstrated truths. This was done although it is well known that evolution and the "higher criticism" ... are in conflict on some matters with the scriptures, including some modern revelation. ... The Church, on the contrary, holds to the definite authority of divine revelation which must be the standard; and that, as so-called "science" has changed from age to age in its deductions, and as divine revelation is truth, and must abide forever, views as to the lesser should conform to the positive statements of the greater. ...
Philosophic theories of life have their place and use, but it is not in the classes of the Church schools, and particularly are they out of place here or anywhere else when they seek to supplant the revelations of God."
Ezra Taft Benson
"As president of the church,
Ezra Taft Benson, gave an April 1981 conference address in which he stated that "the theory of man’s development from lower forms of life" is a "false idea".
[62] In 1988, he published a book counseling members of the church to use the
Book of Mormon to counter the theories of evolution. He wrote that "we have not been using the Book of Mormon as we should. Our homes are not as strong unless we are using it to bring our children to Christ. Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the book to expose and combat the falsehoods in ... organic evolution.
[63] In 1988, Benson published another book that included his earlier warnings
[64] about the "deceptions" of Charles Darwin. He wrote:
[65]
As a watchman on the tower, I feel to warn you that one of the chief means of misleading our youth and destroying the family unit is our educational institutions. There is more than one reason why the Church is advising our youth to attend colleges close to their homes where institutes of religion are available. It gives the parents the opportunity to stay close to their children, and if they become alerted and informed, these parents can help expose some of the deceptions of men like ... Charles Darwin."
General Conference
The church has published several
general conference talks discussing evolution. In the October 1984 conference apostle
Boyd Packer stated that "no one with reverence for God could believe that His children evolved from slime or from reptiles" as well as affirming that "those who accept the theory of evolution don’t show much enthusiasm for genealogical research."
[15] In the April 2012 conference apostle
Russell Nelson discussed the human body stating "some people erroneously think that these marvelous physical attributes happened by chance or resulted from a big bang somewhere". He then compared this to an "explosion in a printing shop produc[ing] a dictionary"."
The result of the inconsistent guidance of the LDS Church the number of believers who support some version of the science of evolution is only ~22%.
From:
Percentage of Mormons Who Accept Evolution
"
If the Pew Forum’s sample of Latter-day Saints is representative of the larger Mormon population, then it appears that 22% of us believe that humanity evolved from lower life forms. This result is in line with my expectation that about 2 out of every 10 Latter-day Saint accepts that Adam and Eve’s bodies evolved. Note that the national average for accepting common descent is 48%."
