Silence of the Geoscience Research Institute

By P. Harold Wallar, MD LSU Alumnus The Seventh-day Adventist church invests about one million dollars a year in its Geoscience Research Institute (GRI), located just 20 minutes from La Sierra University and staffed by five competent creation scientists: Dr. James Gibson, Dr. Raul Esperante, Dr. Timothy Standish, Dr. Benjamin Clausen and Dr. Ronnie Nalin.…

Alumnus calls Wisbey to ‘honor constituent parents’

Warren l. Johns Letter Warren LeRoi Johns practiced law as a career in California, Maryland, and the District of Columbia until partial retirement in the summer of 1992. Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in 1963, he has been a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His non-fiction…

Open letter to General Conference

How are such faculty and administrators who think themselves so “progressive” in advance of the foundational pillars of the organized SDA Church on such basic fundamental issues going to be remotely capable of “bringing our young people home at the end of the day?”,2 as Elder Paulsen put it, if they don’t really believe in…

Letter to Dr. Wisbey by Shane Hilde

This email was sent to Dr. Wisbey shortly after his letter was released. Dr. Wisbey has not replied. May 26, 2009 Dear Mr. Wisbey: This letter is in regard to your letter about “naturalistic evolution” being taught at La Sierra University. I graduated from LSU in 2005, and in my last year I took a…

Response to Wisbey’s Letter by Sean Pitman, MD

This is in reply to the open letter from Randal Wisbey, President of La Sierra University (LSU), in regard to the fact that science professors at LSU are not only teaching, but promoting the truth of Darwinian-style evolution in their classrooms. Wisbey presents the standard argument heard over and over again over the years that…