Walter Julius Veith was born on 1949 and is a South African zoologist and a Seventh-day Adventist author and speaker known for his work in nutrition, creationism and Biblical exegesis.
22 Facts About Walter Veith
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Walter Veith promotes a vegan diet and a belief in the imminent fulfillment of Biblical End Times and the return of Jesus Christ.
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Walter Veith has written a number of books, including Diet and Health and The Genesis Conflict, which gives a biblical perspective and evidence claimed to support young earth creationism.
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Walter Veith is the evangelist of Clash Of Minds, a non-profit worldwide ministry based in Limpopo, South Africa.
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Walter Veith was born in 1949 and grew up in a strict Catholic home.
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Walter Veith was told by his religion teacher that because of his mother's non-Catholic beliefs, she would "languish forever and ever" in hell.
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In 1971 Walter Veith began studying zoology at the University of Stellenbosch, where he graduated with a Master of Science in zoology.
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Walter Veith's thesis dealt with the propagation of dwarf chameleons.
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Walter Veith's thesis was an Autoradiographic and Electron Microscopic study of embryonic nutrition in the teleost Clinus superciliosus.
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Walter Veith attended lectures on zoology at the universities of Durban-Westville and Stellenbosch.
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Walter Veith sold his house in Stellenbosch and accepted a position as associate professor at the University of the Western Cape in zoology.
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Walter Veith researched evidence of the biblical story of creation, and developed a series of lectures to present his findings.
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Walter Veith used his position among other things to promote his belief in creationism and to deny the theory of evolution, finding a fellow believer in these views in his colleague Quincy Johnson.
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Johnson joined the Department of Microbiology, while Walter Veith joined the Department of Physiology, where he worked until 2003.
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Walter Veith has presented lectures on diet, how it directly impacts numerous degenerative diseases including his findings of the negative effects caused by poor nutrition, such as osteoporosis, arthritis, and cancer.
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Walter Veith holds that some of the new versions of the Bible coming out came from manuscripts with corruptions introduced by the Alexandrian text and varies and is less reliable than the Majority Text.
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Walter Veith responded to the Review author explaining his views further.
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In May 2020 the head office of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Southern Africa, the Southern Africa Union Conference, issued a statement repudiating claims that Walter Veith made that Jesus would come around or by 2027.
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Walter Veith has made claims in recent DVDs that the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the signs of the imminent coming of Christ - in line with his 2027 claim.
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In December 2012, the Church leaders banned Walter Veith from speaking in community centers and described his lectures as "conspiracy theories" and "spiritual abuse".
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Amazing Discoveries and Walter Veith replied that the presentation was not meant to be anti-Semitic in any way, and they distanced themselves from anti-Semitism and racism.
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Walter Veith blamed the accusation of anti-Semitism on "linguistic inadequacy", because German is a foreign language for him, adding that in Germany there is a "hypersensitivity" to statements about the persecution of the Jews.