Student Perspectives
I am so excited that Cedarville now has a geology major! The geology classes are really interesting because we are able to learn from a Christian worldview as well as learn about what conventional scientists believe. The classes are small and really interactive, which is great! We also get to go on the best fossil hunting trips! It is really a blessing to be able to study geology here at Cedarville!
—Kristen Baechtle, sophomore
After a semester of anxiously waiting, I am so excited to finally have the opportunity to be a geology major at Cedarville! I don't even think I can fully understand how blessed I am to be here. If the major had not been approved, I was planning to transfer to a public university, although I knew that geology would not be the same anywhere else. So, I am very glad to be at Cedarville — not just because I feel the need to "hide" from evolutionary teaching but because here I can learn the truth. I am thrilled to watch what God will do with this in my life and in the lives of others around me who will also be impacted by this incredible program.
—Sarah Maithel, freshman
In Australia, I had a successful business, a great church, a home, good friends, and in my opinion, the best weather on earth! So what should uproot me and carry me thousands of miles to the other side of the planet? Geology. That's right, geology. I've always been interested in science, specifically the discipline of geology. Nothing would have given me more joy than to continue working part time while at the same time working toward a geology degree in Australia. The trouble was that, in the entire country, I could not find a single Christian college that was committed to a scriptural view of the sciences. That is, holding to the conviction that God created everything perfect only a few thousands of years ago and that due to the sin of Adam the entire creation became subject to a curse which sowed the fruit of all our world's suffering and death. With no colleges in Australia, I decided to pack everything up and head north to a nation teaming with such colleges—America! To my dismay, however, I found that only a handful of Christian colleges in America held to a literal approach to Genesis from a scientific point of view, especially in the discipline of geology. One of those colleges was Cedarville University. The firm commitment of the science faculty to a young earth perspective is therefore almost unique. This is why I came to Cedarville, but more than that, it will be for this reason, almost exclusively, that many other Christians will make similar journeys. That means that while other colleges fudge on these issues in order to attract more students, Cedarville will have a monopoly in its conservatism that will attract Christians truly committed to the literal interpretation of Genesis 1–11. Congratulations, Cedarville!
—Ken Coulson, transfer senior