"Defending Adam and Eve Splits Trustees at Christian College"

charismanews.com Mark Andrews Taking an uncompromising stand for the biblical account of man's creation has roiled a small Christian college in eastern Tennessee and led to the resignation of four trustees who favored watering down the Word of God. The trustees at Bryan College resigned because the school refused to back down from a literal interpretation of the biblical creation account, according to an account Tuesday on christiannews.net. Controversy erupted at Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee, earlier this year when the small evangelical school clarified its stance on the creation of man. The statement of belief clarification simply affirmed the traditional biblical position that Adam and Eve were divinely created by God and were not descendants of earlier life forms, the news service said. "We believe that all humanity is descended from Adam and Eve," the statement said. "They are historical persons created by God in a special formative act, and not from previously existing life forms." A solid majority of the 12-member board affirmed the statement of belief in February. Shortly thereafter, nearly 300 of the school's 800 students signed a petition a few days later asking the board to reconsider the statement, a Chattanooga newspaper reported. The simple clarification quickly generated an uproar, as critics accused the school of unfairly disregarding any alternative interpretations of the Genesis account of creation. Several professors announced in May that they would be leaving the school as a result of the creation controversy, while two other professors went so far as to file a lawsuit against the school, christiannews.net reported. Now, according to Chattanooga's Times Free Press, four members of the college board of trustees have resigned from the school...