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God lay on the cosmic couch all afternoon and watched chariot racing.
Religion Today (Times Leader/AP):

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.

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And six days means just that - "literal 24-hour days forming a week identical in time to what we now experience as a week," the Adventist decree says.

***13.6 million anti-Sunday crusaders can't be wrong!***

The church's statement came last month, after three years of special conferences on the issue of creation. It was approved at a meeting of the Adventists' 293-member Executive Committee at the Silver Spring, Md., headquarters of the church. The faith has 13.6 million members internationally and 936,000 in the United States.

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Why is this one belief so particularly strong for Adventists?

The answer stems from the faith's special belief that founder Ellen G. White was a modern prophet who correctly interpreted the Bible. White (1827-1915) was a native of Maine and prolific writer who reported some 2,000 divinely given visions and dreams. In one, White wrote in 1864, she was "carried back to the creation and was shown that the first week, in which God performed the work of creation in six days and rested on the seventh day, was just like every other week."

CASE CLOSED! Take that you cultural elitist Christ hating liberals! You can't argue with "scientific" reasoning like that.

Ronald L. Numbers, a University of Wisconsin science historian who was raised Adventist, notes that even in the 19th century, White's position was at odds with prevailing science. Early in the 1800s, experts had agreed upon a vast age for the Earth and for life forms found in fossils, later reinforced by techniques like radiometric dating. In Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," published five years before White's writing, the hugely ancient earth allowed time for natural selection.

LIAR! Academic elitist, academic elitist! I think our Codpieced Divine, Commander Skybox, who channels the mind of the Almighty, needs to hold a press conference and hold forth on the revealed truth about how many days it actually took to whip this whole flying slag heap into the fabulous asylum it is. Put the entire matter to rest once and for all. So we can all get back to hunting for sea monsters and chasing naked frogs from thy kneadingtroughs and spewing weird petrochemical crap into the heavenly firmament.

Just as God planned.

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