Among his other accomplishments, Joseph Smith was the most prolific vendor of "inspired" "scientific" theories that has ever lived. There were no heights in astronomy so vast that, in the belief of his followers, he did not reach; there were no depths in geology so profound that he did not fathom.

For instance, by the aid of his "inspired" telescope, Joseph Smith discovered a new globe which he named "Kolob." He also discovered that Kolob was so vast that it requires one thousand years for it to make one revolution on its axis. And it was revealed to the Prophet that the Almighty reckons the time of the universe from one revolution of Kolob; that is, that a day with the Lord is as one thousand years; that, therefore, the creative "day" in Genesis was one thousand years, and that the world was, therefore, created in six thousand years instead of six days of twenty-four hours each. And each devout "scientific" Saint accepts that dictum in preference to the hundreds of millions of years which uninspired scientists affirm were required for the evolution of the earth from nebulous matter to the present time.