Comment on PUC Professor: The Noachian Flood was just a local flood? by Alicia.
I don’t believe his statements should be regarded as a jab against the Adventist faith, but rather an assessment of current scientific data. I went to a Seventh-Day Adventist institution for k-12 and when I went to a public university for college, I felt completely behind everyone else in biology class because I had no awareness of the fundamentals of evolution that were being taught at my university.
Seventh-Day Adventists do not live in a bubble. Consequently, our educational institutions should not be so biased against evolution studies. If creationism and the flood are going to be studied, they should be studied alongside more secular theories so that the SDA student isn’t disadvantaged in the wider academic world.
Bryan Ness’s students, and the administrators at PUC should be thankful they have professors who are willing to expose their students to the diversity of the academic field they are studying. Questions are an integral part of further learning. A religious doctrine should not be a crutch in the way of intellectual advancement.
