In the beginning, after this earth was prepared for man, the Lord commenced his work upon what is now called the American continent, where the Garden of Eden was made.
Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, pg.94
Well, since the American continent didn't exist until after the Great Flood, this statement is pure nonsense. Remember, this is from a "prophet"--who if a true prophet wouldn't make such a nonsensical statement.
Things were first created spiritually; the Father actually begat the spirits, and they were brought forth and lived with him. Then he commenced the work of creating earthly tabernacles, precisely as he had been created in this flesh himself, by partaking of the coarse material that was organized and composed this earth,…consequently the tabernacles of his children were organized from the coarse materials of this earth.
Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, pg.50
It’s hard for me to do anything but laugh at this unbiblical nonsense. Nothing in the Bible even hints that anything was created spiritually first. God did not give birth to spirits because he is not human nor did he have sexual relations with spiritual wives (as other LDS doctrines claim) to beget spiritual children.
