I've been grateful for your reports on the Glacier View conference. . . . If your view prevails we'll have gone the way of so many other denominations before us. Christianity in Europe languishes because the Bible's authority was overridden by the "scientific" worldview. Can you point me to any robustly growing Christian group in which the Bible's authority has been subjected to the "higher authority" of "science"? . . . . But the slow death of European Christianity, and the stagnation of mainline American Protestantism, is certainly a guarantee that something has gone wrong! I, for one, am not willing to stand by and let that happen to God's remnant church!

Below are some further comments from my perspective, which I have shared with the lay leaders of my congregations:

Here is another report from the very important Glacier View Faith and Science Conference.. . . Please keep in mind that the authors of these reports are very sympathetic toward the "liberal" or pro-evolution side of these discussions. You will notice that they are essentially appealing for the privilege of continuing to be Seventh-day Adventists even though they no longer believe the Seventh-day Adventist message. They envision an SDA "community of faith" that no longer has either message or mission-only lots of warm fuzzies. . . . God calls us to nurture loving, warm relationships with Methodists, Catholics, charismatics, and yes, evolutionary scientists. . . . At the end of the report, . . . the authors refer to faith, hope and love as primary. . . . Tragically, evolution destroys all three: faith, by removing the trustworthiness of the foundational divine account about where we came from; hope, because without a divine beginning we can expect no divine ending to human history; love, because if God invented survival of the fittest He is; at best a yin-yang sort of being who may still be seen as powerful, but can no longer be defined as purely love.

Pastor Dale Wolcott, D.Min.

wolcotts@usol.com