A Seventh Day Adventist and a vigorous opponent of theories of evolution. He received his college education at Adventist schools and subsequently taught at several as a geology professor, finally retiring in 1938. He published a number of books, among them The New Geology (1923), which describes his theory of Earth’s history in great detail. He was a devout believer in the literal truth of the Genesis account of Earth’s origin it did take place in six days, ordinary 24-hour days, not days of great length as some suggest. The fossil record is evidence of the great flood, the fossils being the remains of species on Earth before the flood The age of Earth is only a few thousand years.
Price distanced himself from those who had earlier insisted on the literal truth of the biblical account, in particular from 17th-century Anglican clergyman Thomas Burnet, chaplain to King William III. Price argued that Burnet was mistaken in using the biblical account as the source of his theory, thereby bringing the biblical account into disrepute. Price was insistent that the source had to be Earth’s geology, that the record had to be determined from the rocks, and that the evidence thus painstakingly accumulated would confirm and did confirm the biblical account. In The New Geology, he attacks Burnet and his ilk: “Their wild fancies deserve to be called travesties alike on the Bible and on true science; and the word “diluvial” has been a term to mock ever since. Happy would it have been for the subsequent history of the sciences, if the students of the rocks had all been willing patiently to investigate the records, and had their fancies sternly in leash until they had gathered sufficient facts upon which to found a true induction or generalization.”