Okay, at least they aren’t suing the multiverse. This controversy revolves around whether Adam and Eve existed.
Here’s what we know, sort of:
Science professor Stephen Barnett and education professor Steven DeGeorge say in the lawsuit that college trustees don’t have the authority to make the change because the school’s charter says the statement can’t be altered.
ince the school clarified its statement of belief to say that Adam and Eve were historical people who were not created from previously existing life forms, the conflict has escalated with a majority of professors voting “no confidence” in the school’s president, and students and alumni penning petitions in response to the controversy. More.
Bryan College attorney, Rosemarie Hill, told The Christian Post on Thursday that “the school made it very clear from the beginning and in the presentation of the contract to the professors that this was a clarification, not an amendment or change” and that the “clarification simply states what item number four has always said.”
She declined to comment on whether the fired Bryan College faculty held those assumptions about the school’s statement of faith when they took positions at the school.
They say students have been wearing black armbands to chapel over the issue.
Since the school clarified its statement of belief to say that Adam and Eve were historical people who were not created from previously existing life forms, the conflict has escalated with a majority of professors voting “no confidence” in the school’s president, and students and alumni penning petitions in response to the controversy. Students held a protest day last month prompted by the loss of at least nine of the college’s 44 full-time professors and statements by Bryan College President Stephen Livesay, who has downplayed the controversy.
Livesay told the newspaper in April that students are happy and “the reality is we are solid.”
The professors declined to comment, but say in the suit that the board’s action contradicts language that says Bryan is “to represent a wide spectrum of religious denominations and the normal divergence that is characteristic of the larger American evangelical community.”
The News desk here is calling that Adam and Eve really existed but that some other couple has been ripping off their charge cards, possibly to buy underwear …