By Sean Pitman The Seventh-day Adventist Church officially holds, as a foundational empirical truth, that God really did create all life on this planet in just six literal days… and then rested on the seventh-day from his creative work with this planet, creating a holy Sabbath day for us to rest from all of our secular activities…
By Sean Pitman The term “God-of-the-gaps argument” is often used to refer to a position that assumes an act of God as the explanation for any unknown phenomenon – which is a variant of an argument from ignorance. The origin of the term goes back to Henry Drummond, a 19th-century evangelist lecturer, from his Lowell…
By Sean Pitman The Collegian, the school paper for Walla Walla University, just published an entire spread on the topic of evolution vs. creation with authors (primarily students) from multiple departments contributing. An interesting survey was also published primarily reflecting the beliefs of WWU students on the topic of origins (a smaller percentage of faculty,…
From the North American Religious Liberty Association Today the Supreme Court decided what is likely the most important religious liberty case to come down in the past two decades. In Hosanna-Tabor Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Court sided unanimously with a church sued for firing an employee on religious…
By Sean Pitman . Many, even among those who call themselves Adventists, question the true origin of the Sabbath and of the 7-day weekly cycle. Of course, the Bible claims that God instituted both during the Creation Week described in Genesis. However, critics of the biblical account claim that the seven-day week was actually invented…