Comment on 2013 Annual Council Votes to Change Wording of Adventist Fundamental Belief #6 by Bob Helm.
@Jared: Actually, the word earth can also be translated land, and I’m doubtful that the author and first readers ever had the concept of a planet in mind. The creation of the heavens, earth, sea, and that is in them refers to the expanse of day 2, the land and sea of day three, and the plants and animals that filled these realms. However, Gen 1:2 does seem to speak of a sterile, chaotic earth that existed prior to creation week. If that is the case, Ex 20:11 refers to the creation of what we today would term the earth’s biosphere.
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2013 Annual Council Votes to Change Wording of Adventist Fundamental Belief #6
@newbie: The most recent poll of science professors in Adventist institutions of higher learning indicates that about 2/3 affirm the creation of life on earth in 6 days and in the recent past. It is true that some subscribe to evolution (especially at LSU), but to say that there is “no evidence that creation science is taught at Adventist institutions” is false.
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What is wrong with conceding that many claims of scripture can only be accepted on faith?
I fully realize that 21st century scientists cannot perform X rays of Mary’s womb or insert instruments into her womb to determine exactly what took place when the Holy Spirit overshadowed her. Of course, I accept the virgin birth on faith! My point was that we now have examples of virgin births occuring as a result of modern scientific technology, and since science has now produced virgin births in mammals, if God is real, we have an analogy for how He could have done the same thing. @Professor Kent:
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Darwinist is just short for Neo-Darwinist. While the majority of biologists subscribe to Neo-Darwinism, I would contest your statement that Darwinist=biologist. I prefer “Darwinist” to “evolutionist” because the latter is a slippery term. Even creationists believe in micro-evolution.@pauluc:
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@Sean Pitman: Sean, it’s interesting and ironic how churches repeatedly try to become more relevant by accepting Darwinism and other forms of liberalism, but in the end, they always die, while churches that maintain their creationist stance and conservative values continue to grow.
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@pauluc: I wondered if you would bring up alchemy. Just because Newton was wrong about alchemy, why try to slur him over it? Even though he was a great physicist, he was human, and he did make mistakes!
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@Pauluc: Actually, there is one extrabiblical reference to Jesus’ Resurrection. In his “Antiquities of the Jews,” we have this from Flavius Josephus: “When the principal men among us had condemned Him [Jesus] to the cross, those who loved Him at first did not forsake Him. For He appeared to them alive again the third day. . .” This so-called “Testimonium Flavianum” has provoked fierce debate, with critics calling it an interpolation. However, it is written in the style of Josephus and appears in all the extant Greek manuscripts of “The Antiquities of the Jews.”
