Ole Olesen, the pastor of the Milton Adventist and Athena Blue Mountain Valley Church District in Oregon, has written a brief paper entitled "Thoughts on Creation and Deep-Time" as a contribution to the dialogue on the topic being considered on this blog. I welcome the tone and balanced, pastoral perspective reflected in Elder Olesen's comments. --Erv Taylor

There are those among us who employ a secular corporate model as the standard to apply to what is most appropriate behavior of someone in a leadership role in the contemporary Adventist Church.

The contemporary scientific enterprise is arguably the one element defining Western modernity which has had the greatest impact on improving the length of and quality of human life. Think antibiotics to combat infections, vaccines to prevent smallpox and polio, and proton accelerators for cancer treatment.

Over the last 12-15 months, those who monitor web sites and publications of the conservative wing of Adventistism may have noticed that several have been recently quoting a talk given by the late General Con

In most human institutions, political and economic power is closely linked; the "Golden Rule" usually operates: He or she who has the gold "rules." To maintain its existence, any corporate institution-public or private, secular or religious--needs sources of funding.  It also needs an effective mechanism that maintains a predictable flow of these funds if the organiz

In the first seven segments of this blog, we have reviewed, in very summary form, a tiny amount of the scientific evidence indicating that our planet is billions of years old and life forms on our planet have been in existence for at least hundreds of millions of years.  If any reader is interested in a detailed discussion o

All of the segments of this series have included the term "Adventist Dilemma" in its title.

For those who have read at least one segment of this series, it should not come as a surprise that the thesis being advanced is that it has been sufficiently demonstrated by several generations of researchers from a range of scientific disciplines that both this world and life on this planet is very, very old.  This conclusion is based on multiple lines of evidence, almost all of which are c

One of the many effects of the rapid post-World War II expansion of scientific research in a wide variety of disciplines was the development of suite of diverse methods of dating geological, paleontological (fossil), and archaeological materials.

As has been previously noted, to many conservative and all fundamentalist Young Life Creationist (YLC) Christians, including currently almost all traditional Seventh-day Adventists (although, as surveys have shown, not a majority of Seventh-day Adventist scientists), a belief in a Creator God is assumed to require the rejection of scientific evidence for "deep time" in the geological an