Adventists Lead the Rebellion Against Evolution Church of Christ Follows.

At the end of the nineteenth century almost nobody was arguing directly in favor of a young earth with an age of less than ten thousand years. Enthusiasm for this view was confined primarily to the Seventh-day Adventists, who followed the writings of their founder Ellen G. White, considered a prophet by the Adventists. In one passage White described a vision she had of the creation of the earth. In another vision God revealed to her that Noah's flood produced the fossil record. Early Adventists could reconcile the geological data found in the early nineteenth century with a literal reading of the flood story of Genesis 6-8, by assuming that Noah's flood did all the work. White's vision grew dramatically in its influence, as it was embraced first by fundamentalists and then by most evangelicals.

 

The early twentieth century movement known as "fundamentalism" did not embrace young earth creationism and was even friendly toward versions of evolution.

 

The widespread creationism of today gained traction as an anti-evolution movement that simply reinvented the "flood geology" of Ellen White's vision. This flood geology was presented in a series of books by George MacCready Price a self taught geologist. By the early 1960s Price's ideas, updated in "The Genesis Flood" were becoming the mainstream belief of anti-evolutionists of many theological stripes. This shift can be attributed mainly to timing.

 

As has been the trend the Church of Christ has taken the ideas of people with whom they would not assemble and treat them as supported by the Bible.