GC Delegates Vote to Tighten Language of Fundamental #6 on Creation
On Tuesday of the 2015 GC session (July 7) the delegates overwhelmingly voted to update the language of the statement of Fundamental Belief #6 on Creation to specifically highlight the Seventh-day Adventist position on the historical and, in particular, the literal nature of the creation week described in Genesis (the changes in wording are highlighted below). God…
“LSU-3” Drop Lawsuit
The North American Division announced that the appeal in the “LSU-3 lawsuit” has been dropped, finally ending the litigation against the church and LSU. “This case began with an inadvertent recording of a conversation among three La Sierra professors Jeffrey Kaatz, James Beach, and Gary Bradley and La Sierra board member Lenny Darnell at the home of…
Avondale College Arguing in Favor of Darwinian Evolution?
In the most recent 2015 issue of Christian Spirituality and Science published by Avondale College (a Seventh-day Adventist institution under the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists) there are three articles, all of which appear to challenge the firm position of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on the literal nature of the creation week described in Genesis. The…
Scientists and the Temptation to Bias Results
Scientists are supposed to be upright and honest and largely immune from bias – as least deliberate bias. However, the problem is that scientists are human like the rest of us. That means, of course, that they are not at all immune from the sometimes very strong temptation to bias their experimental results. Sometimes the…