sentences:  His Ph.D. thesis entitled "The Impact of the Jewish Day of Atonement upon the New Testament" (Manchester, U.K.) was submitted in 1973.He has described himself as a "reluctant participant" at the Glacier View meeting in 1980, in which his friend, Adventist theologian Desmond Ford's ministerial credentials were removed following his rejection of the investigative judgment doctrine.In the 1980s Young became a vocal supporter of Australian Adventist Lindy Chamberlain who had been wrongly convicted of killing her daughter Azaria.