Here are some religious reasons why God didn’t use evolution:

-Scriptures disagree
-LDS Prophets disagree
-1st Presidency statements say Adam was the “direct lineal offspring” of God.
-Luke gives a genealogy and says Adam’s dad is God.
-It’s undirected (“Natural” selection)
-Why look to a worldly idea for truth?
-Darwin was evil.
-Evolution was made to get rid of God.
-Elements are intelligent and respond to God’s authority.
-It requires Adam’s dad to be a monkey-man.
-It denies that man was made in the image of God.
-It denies the Fall, which also undermines the atonement.
-It spiritualizes the scriptures, not allowing them to be literal.
-It denies the flood of Noah.

Here are some scientific reasons why God didn’t use evolution:

-It’s wasteful.
-It takes forever.
-It’s based a long chain of unplanned events so unlikely they may as well be considered impossible.
-Its cruel.
-There are more efficient ways to create, therefore its not charitable.
-Science often contradicts it.
-It requires a way too old earth.
-Atheist agenda holds up the fake science
-Tax dollars hold up the fake science.
-Opposition to it is systemically suppressed.
-It doesn’t work with known laws of genetics.
-There is insufficient proof for it in the fossil record.
-It’s statistically not possible for the amount of time given, to mutate enough genes to create complex life.

If the world said the moon were made of cheese, and Christians said no, God made the moon, and he wouldn’t have made it out of cheese, have we reached a satisfactory compromise when we say the moon is made of cheese, but God made it that way? The entire premise is flawed, and putting God into it isn’t getting us any closer to the truth. Surely the God of order is offended when we blame Him for evolutionary claims. Though the whole world believe the moon to be of cheese, the saints will not!

Joseph Fielding Smith summarized his reasoning on why God didn’t use the drawn out process of evolution when he could have simply transported life to this planet. He said:

“Now let us reason together on what is here presented:

1. Worlds without number have been created.

2. They have been created as habitations for the children of God.

3. The great work and glory of our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

4. Inhabitants of other worlds are begotten sons and daughters of God.

5. When one earth passes away to its exaltation another comes.

6. The making of earths is a glorious work which has been carried on eternally.

This being true, then does it not appear to you that it is a foolish and ridiculous notion that when God created this earth he had to begin with a speck of protoplasm, and take millions of years, if not billions, to bring conditions to pass by which his sons and daughters might obtain bodies made in his image? Why not the shorter route and transplant them from another earth as we are taught in the scriptures?

Surely to any reasonable mind, the Lord would not have to start with an amoeba, pass through the stage of lower fish to higher fish to reptiles to apes and to man! When we stop to consider how perfect are the workings of God; how thorough he is and orderly, surely these theories flatten out and are without substance.” (Joseph Fielding Smith, Man: His Origin & Destiny, Ch. 12 Man the Offspring of God)