Machen, the Scopes Trial, and the CrossPolitic Myth That Six-Day Creation Is the Wall Against Liberalism

A CrossPolitic essay boldly claims that abandoning a literal six-day creation is a slippery slope to theological liberalism. Yet history thwarts that narrative. J. Gresham Machen, one of the staunchest anti-liberals, rejected the six-day mandate, focusing instead on the gospel's supernatural heart. It’s not time to redefine the borders of orthodoxy with YEC at the center.