As of March 4, the Pacific Union Recorder has removed Alberto Valenzuela’s article promoting Darwinism from the English language version of its February, 2026, edition. Pages 22-25 have been deleted (Link), and the specific link to this article on the Pacific Union Conference website is now inactive (Link).
It would thus appear that our article of protest (as well as articles by Kevin Paulson, Sean Pittman, and Michael Peabody) reached its intended audience. Mr. Valenzuela’s article, which cited Pope John Paul II as an authority, was a disingenuous exercise in deception, trying to convince Adventists that there really is no difference between the Adventist doctrine that God created our world and its living creatures in six literal, 24 hour days, and rested on the seventh day, hallowing it for all time, and the position of “science” that the world was evolved by slow degrees over the course of five or six hundred million years. It is gratifying that someone at the Pacific Union was paying attention.
However, the Spanish version appears to remain posted on the Recorder’s website (Link), and is linked in the Pacific Union Conference archives of the Recorder. Also, it appears that Mr. Valenzuela maintains his position as Editor of the Recorder, listed in the March edition, and even wrote another article, entitled “Fundamental Belief #24: God for Us: Hope, Assurance, and the Heavenly Sanctuary” (p. 8-9).