We encouraged our son to go to a “Christian” college, as the other members of our family did. He had been offered a full scholarship at a public university, and though we are not wealthy, we do believe in Christian education and so supported AJ’s decision to enroll at La Sierra. That was a couple…
Source: Pacific Union Recorder During the current fall quarter, a new general biology seminar will focus on guiding these students through the ongoing dialogue between faith development and scientific investigation. The new seminar series runs concurrently with the fall quarter’s general biology class and is required for students planning to continue in the first-year biology…
Speaker: Sean Pitman, MD Source: DetectingDesign.com The sermon is about the science behind faith – specifically concentrating on the numerous anthropic “coincidences” needed to support life in this universe as well as various informational miracles needed to produce life itself. The talk summarizes with “the greatest creative miracle of all” – the rebirth of the…
Source: “Dinosaurs – An Adventist View” David C. Read (reposted with permission) Radiometric dating, sometimes called isotopic dating, is an attempt to determine when igneous rocks were formed based upon the rocks’ content of certain chemical elements. The technique is based on the principle that an unstable, radioactive parent element “decays†into a stable daughter…
By Clifford Goldstein Source: Adventist Review Let’s get hypothetical and pretend that the Genesis Creation account was never meant to be taken literally. Although God was communicating with us about the work of creation, suppose the texts themselves were to be understood metaphorically, symbolically, nothing more. Given that premise, what, then, was the Creator seeking…