In 1997, Dr. Ross Anderson, who is now a professor in the Biological
and Physical Sciences Department at The Master’s College, did the
unthinkable in realm of secular higher education. He took a stand for
the Genesis account of creation.
That stand cost him his job.
At the time, Anderson was a faculty member at Lamar University near
Houston, Texas. He didn’t begin his time at Lamar as a young Earth
creationist, but with God’s help, that’s where he ended.
“I was a theistic evolutionist,” Anderson says. “That’s the only way I
could combine my formal education with my church education. Obviously,
my church education wasn’t much, particularly in that area.”
When students asked how he fit evolution into his Christian beliefs,
he gave the answer he had been trained to give—that evolution is what
God used in creation. The answer was good enough for his students, but
it never really sat well with Anderson.
“I was unsatisfied with my answer,” he says. “I started thinking, ‘I
am the teacher now.’ All those verses about being more accountable
applied to me. I didn’t want to be a stumbling block. So I asked God to
reveal the truth to me on this issue.”
Anderson sought that truth on the pages of Scripture. He also began
to scrutinize the “science” behind evolution. That study revealed what
Anderson calls his “lack of solid knowledge of the Bible” and his “lack
of knowledge about what evolution was.” Continue at Ross Anderson
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