What We Believe
Belief #6. Creation: God is Creator of all things, and has revealed in Scripture the authentic account of His creative activity. In six days the Lord made “the heaven and the earth” and all living things upon the earth, and rested on the seventh day of that first week. Thus He established the Sabbath as a perpetual memorial of His completed creative work. The first man and woman were made in the image of God as the crowning work of Creation, given dominion over the world, and charged with responsibility to care for it. When the world was finished it was “very good,” declaring the glory of God. (Gen. 1; 2; Ex. 20:8-11; Ps. 19:1-6; 33:6, 9; 104; Heb. 11:3.)
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Shane Hilde started EducateTruth.com shortly after David Asscherick’s letter to the General Conference was made public. He graduated with a bachelor’s in English from La Sierra University and went on to get his teaching credential from University of Redlands, California. While at LSU, Hilde took a biology course in which the professor openly professed his belief in the theory of evolution, and taught it as the best explanation for life today. Currently, Hilde teaches British literature at a public high school in California. He lives with his wife Mary in Beaumont.
Moderator and Contributor
Dr. Sean Pitman, a graduate of Loma Linda University and City of Hope National Medical Center, is an anatomic and clinical pathologist with a subspecialty in hematopathology. He is the son of SDA pastor Tui Pitman and registered nurse Faye Pitman, and attended SDA schools for most of his student career – to include medical school at Loma Linda University. He then spent four years as a physician in the US Army, married his beautiful wife Sigrid, finished his pathology residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center and his hematology fellowship at the City of Hope National Medical Center. He and Sigrid recently had their first baby boy, Wesley. He has long been interested in the topics of evolution and creation, spending over 10 years of intensive investigation into understanding God through His creation. He has also been personally involved, for over 5 years now, with trying to address the problem of a Seventh-day Adventist school, LSU in particular, promoting theistic/mainstream evolutionary theories as the true story of origins in their science classrooms – directly undermining the clearly stated “fundamental” position of the SDA Church on a literal 6-day creation week (on the Church’s dime). He has twice been invited to speak at LSU, at the sponsorship of student organizations, to address the conflict between Creation and Evolution and has been very active in the current controversy with LSU over this issue. You can view his website at www.DetectingDesign.com.
Editor
Mary Hilde graduated with a bachelor’s in journalism from University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication and has worked for newspapers and magazines in Oregon, Washington, Minnesota and California. Currently, Hilde works as a religion columnist for a California newspaper and helps maintain Educate Truth.