Adventists stick to belief in a literal 6-day creation

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: November 27, 2004| Author: Richard N. Ostling Associated Press | Copyright information

In a society where young adherents often face challenges to their beliefs, the top world authorities of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have reaffirmed the faith's insistence that fidelity to the Bible requires belief in "a literal, recent, six-day creation," no matter what conventional science says.

"Recent" means that life on Earth began over the relatively short time period suggested by a strictly literal reading of the Bible, "probably 7,000 to 10,000 years," though some Adventist...

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