Emory University “Welcomes” Commencement Speaker Dr. Ben Carson

By Sean Pitman . Dr. Ben Carson, an innovative and very well-known pediatric neurosurgeon and author from Johns Hopkins University, is scheduled to give the commencement address for, and receive an honorary degree from, Emory University this coming Monday (Update: see a video Dr. Carson’s talk below) . Dr. Carson is a favorite commencement speaker [...]

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Strumming the Attached Strings

By Wesley Kime   If you can fiddle with Genesis 1, you can twang the strings attached to your California construction bond.  LSU seems to be striving for prominence in the field of such stringed performances, and its latest production, “Fugue on A Funding Bond, a Concerto Grosso for Attached Strings,” was a landmark contribution, [...]

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La Sierra University Responds to anti-Creation Bond Issue

By Sean Pitman . Larry Becker, on behalf of La Sierra University, has responded (see attached document below) to questions concerning LSU’s acceptance, in 2008, of a California State bond for $25 million dollars with prohibitive language that seems to limit LSU’s ability to use its science buildings to actively promote the Seventh-day Adventist position [...]

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La Sierra Univeristy Fires Dr. Lee Greer; Signs anti-Creation Bond

By Sean Pitman . According to an article published by ADvindicate yesterday, Dr. Lee Greer, one of the main evolutionary biologists involved with the current debate over neo-Darwinism being promoted at LSU, has been fired by La Sierra University (Link).  The article did not list any further details, but this may have been as a [...]

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Michigan Conference vs. LSU – Right Wing Politics or Truth in Advertising?

by Sean Pitman . Since the controversy over the promotion of neo-Darwinism (to the active exclusion of any meaningful support for the “fundamental” Adventist position on creation) erupted at La Sierra University over two years ago, some have accused those who support efforts to actually uphold the church’s position on origins (a literal 7-day creation [...]

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Michigan Conference accused of shunning LSU choir students

Reposting of an article recently published by ADvindicate: . Charles Scriven, president of Kettering College and chair of the Adventist Forum board, recently accused the Michigan Conference of shunning a La Sierra University choir. Tensions between the university and conference began in 2009 when a website published evidence the university was allowing the theory of [...]

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Tennessee Bill Allows Creation in Science Classrooms

By Sean Pitman A new pro-creation education bill that passed the Tennessee Senate 24-8 last month and 70-23 in the House last year is on the governor’s desk.  Many think it likely that this bill will be signed into state law by governor Bill Haslam today (April 10, 2012). “These bills sound very innocent,” said [...]

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Revisiting God, Sky & Land by Fritz Guy and Brian Bull

by Sean Pitman: Recently, as part of Dr. Paul Giem’s lecture series at Loma Linda University Church, Drs. Fritz Guy (theologian, former president of La Sierra University, and one of the framers of Adventist Fundamental Belief #6 on Creation) and Brian Bull (pathologist and well-published medical scientist) were invited to present their latest book, God, [...]

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Dr. Ariel Roth’s Creation Lectures for Teachers

Dr. Ariel Roth is widely recognized as being one of the founding father’s of a scientific form of creationism within the Adventist Church.  He has written popular books on origins that have been widely read in many different languages around the world (Origins, Linking Science and Scripture and Science Discovers God) and has spent much [...]

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