Re: 7th Day Adventists and YECism

I haven't seen the text of Ostling's article, but your account might give
the impression that belief in a young earth is primarily due to Seventh
Day Adventism. Actually it is flood geology that the Adventists came up
with first before others such as Henry Morris bought into it.

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Either Carol or John Burgeson wrote:

> An AP article last week reports that the 7th Day Adventist 293 member
> Executive Committee has stated the faith's insistence of the membership's
> adherence to a literal, recent, six-literal 24-hour day creation, no
> matter what conventional science may say. The earth is not more than
> 10,000 years old; more probably about 7,000 years old.
>
> There are 13.6 million Adventists worldwide; 936,000 in the USA.
>
> The article writer, Richard Ostling, says the creationist movement was
> launched by Adventists (and others) in the 1960s. Creationism "is a
> foundation" for Adventist beliefs. Spectrum, an Adventist magazine, calls
> it a "doctrinal domino theory" with creationism at the base.
>
> The faith insists that their founder, Ellen White, was inspired by God
> when she wrote (in 1864) of being "carried back to the creation and shown
> hat the first week ... was just like any other week."
>
> As the article (long) continues, Ostling writes: "Today, there are few
> young earth creationists among the 1,800 evangelical scientists in the
> American Scientific Affiliation ... " ASA president Martin Price is
> quoted.
>
> Ostling also notes that the Adventists do not stand alone. There are
> independent creationist "ministries" (quote marks mine -- jb) and the
> 403,000 member Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Church holds similar views
> (not based on Ellen White of course) and the 2,500,000 member Lutheran
> Church - Missouri Synod defends a strictly literal reading of Genesis.
>
> The Adventist Executive Board states that all educators and boards of the
> faith are to toe the line.
>
> Burgy
>
>
> www.burgy.50megs.com
>
>
Received on Fri Nov 19 16:59:28 2004