A number of news sources have reported that theologian and evolutionist Bruce K. Waltke has left his position at the Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando) because of his stand on evolution. A video was recently published showing the noted evangelical scholar endorsing mainstream evolutionary theory. He also said that evangelical Christianity could face a crisis for…
In 2003 the Adventist Review published a very controversial article by Clifford Goldstein titled, “Seventh-day Darwinians.” This strongly worded article seemed to slip through the vetting cracks and ended up causing a great deal of heated debate within the Seventh-day Adventist Church, especially at our academic institutions like La Sierra University and Loma Linda University. Now…
What About Academic Freedom? A math teacher who said in an online survey that she did not believe in God has been fired by an Iowa Catholic school after her views were discovered on her Facebook profile and after officials found she had posted a comment at an atheist website. Last August the teacher, 27-year-old…
It has been clear for much of Lawrence Geraty’s distinguished career that he never really did support the “fundamentalist” interpretation of the Genesis account as clearly referring to six literal days of creation. Beyond this, he has not considered such a fundamental doctrinal belief to be all that important to the SDA Church. Even so,…
By Educate Truth Staff Despite an overwhelming vote by constituents of the Northern California Conference against the Oroville Church’s agenda item #3, it turns out that such a policy is already in place. On October 11, 1987, the General Conference Executive Committee approved and voted a document titled “A Statement on Theological and Academic Freedom…