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should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts: ‘i propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people. i know that happiness and contentment are there, and I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith. i acknowledge that i do not understand the processes of creation, but i accept the fact of it. i grant that i cannot explain the miracles of the bible, and i do not attempt to do so, but i accept god’s word. i wasn’t with joseph, but i believe him. my faith did not come to me through science, and i will not permit so-called science to destroy it’. — thomas s. monson, ensign, february 2001