Gary Gilbert, Spectrum, and Pseudogenes

By Arthur V. Chadwick, Ph.D.  . In October of 1992, Spectrum Magazine ran an article written by a young physician, Gary Gilbert, in which he attempted to justify his loss of faith on the basis of the existence of pseudogenes. Pseudogenes are regions of DNA that have codes very similar to known genes, but often [...]

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Bringing the Real World to Genesis: Why Evolution is an Idea that Won’t Die—IV [A Review]

  By Sean Pitman . Mr. Jan M. Long, J.D. has taught management at Loma Linda University and at Riverside Community College. Currently he is a legal analyst for the District Attorney of Riverside County, California. He also dabbles in the creation/evolution debate, having been converted to neo-Darwinism from traditional Adventism.  Recently, Mr. Long published [...]

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The Full History of La Sierra University vs. Louie Bishop

. MY STRUGGLES AS A CREATIONIST AT LA SIERRA UNIVERSITY Louie Bishop . Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church leadership have encouraged me that laymen in the church, especially those alumni with first-hand experience like me, should be actively involved in bringing about change to the crisis at La Sierra University. It is my hope [...]

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Is La Sierra University Legally Distancing Itself from the Church?

by Sean Pitman . La Sierra University is about to vote on proposed bylaw changes that appear to allow it to distance itself from as much church influence as had previously been in place with regard to the governance of the school.  It appears that such measures are being considered due to the recent pressures [...]

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Another Student’s Perspective of La Sierra University

I am a biology major who graduated from LSU in 2009. I’ve since moved onto medical school and am about to graduate for there too. I transferred in from a public university and I remember that my first thought was, “There is no difference in my science classes from the school I came to the [...]

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Louie Bishop Testifies, Again, about His Experience at La Sierra University

By Louie Bishop (Louie was a pre-med student who attended LSU a short time ago, ran into a just a few difficulties over the issue of origins, and tried to do something about it): . I will seek to reiterate some facts regarding my own experience at LSU: As a student at LSU while Randal [...]

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Two Conflicting Arguments in Defense of La Sierra University

From posts by John Osborn on the Spectrum blog: . There are two lines of defense for LSU that make this [debate] particularly confusing: 1. Educate Truth’s vision of Adventist higher education is impossible or inappropriate. The Adventist position on Origins is indefensible, and teaching it at an Adventist school would be brainwashing. 2. Educate Truth’s [...]

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LSU Responds to Issues Regarding Dr. Diaz and WASC

by Sean Pitman . The following news release was sent to my E-mail account this afternoon:   “La Sierra University Responds to False Charges by Independent Websites”   First off, the argument that Dr. Diaz is a “baptized member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church” is effectively irrelevant to the point of concern.  After all, it [...]

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WASC Team Recommends Formal Notice of Concern Regarding LSU

by Sean Pitman . It looks as if La Sierra University is between a rock and a hard place.  Not only has LSU just hired a new evolutionary biologist, Dr. Raul Diaz (who believes in and promotes life’s existence and evolution on this planet over hundreds of millions of years), the team from the Western [...]

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