What was the strangest bit of mental gymnastics you performed to stay believing?

I’ll start. After studying the origins and historical population dispersion of Homo sapiens —- I came up with this one:

Pre-adamites wondered around and populated the earth for thousands of years until Heavenly Father thought they were sufficiently developed enough to get infused with human souls. He set up some kind of walled off garden in Missouri which the first Adam and Eve wandered into. He caused a deep sleep to come on them and infused their spirits. Whereupon he told them to wake up and open their eyes just like the temple movie narrative etc….

Of course those damn Aboriginals in Australia ruined that theory…thanks a lot Simon Southerton lol