The North American Division announced that the appeal in the “LSU-3 lawsuit” has been dropped, finally ending the litigation against the church and LSU. “This case began with an inadvertent recording of a conversation among three La Sierra professors Jeffrey Kaatz, James Beach, and Gary Bradley and La Sierra board member Lenny Darnell at the home of…
The following is a full transcript of the decision of the Honorable Edward D. Webster, the judge in the trial of the “LSU three” vs. La Sierra University, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and various church officials over the infamous self-recording of these men acting contrary to the church’s positions on numerous issues. The judge expressed his…
by Sean Pitman . It has recently come to my attention that La Sierra University has quietly taken the chairmanship of the biology department away from Dr. Lee Grismer and given it to Dr. John Perumal (not updated on LSU’s website until after October 17). From the church’s perspective, this certainly is an improvement since…
Excerpts from an article by Mark Kellner in Adventist News: La Sierra University, a Seventh-day Adventist-owned educational institution in Riverside, California, received a three-year accreditation through 2016, following a vote by the Adventist Accrediting Association (AAA) board, meeting Wednesday, October 9, in Silver Spring, Maryland. The maximum term granted for accreditation is five years, Lisa…
by Sean Pitman: . The following discussion is from a Spectrum article by Dr. Mailen Kootsey. Dr. Kootsey is a physicist who has “multidisciplinary expertise”, to include appointments in departments of Physics, Physiology, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Biology. His article is entitled, “Emergence and Origins of Life”. In this article he tries to explain…