The Credibility of Faith

By Sean Pitman From a response to Pastor John Thomas Mclarty in an Atoday discussion blog by Cindy Tutsch entitled, “Who’s a Fundamentalist?” Pastor Mclarty wrote: Cindy, You begin by defining fundamentalism in the context of 20th century American Protestant history and prove that Adventists, even staunchly conservative Adventists, disagree with a crucial element of…

Last Thursdayism

By Sean Pitman In response to interesting comments by Professor Kent (who was responding to a post by Dr. Paul Giem): @Professor Kent: Paul, as you well recognize, one cannot reasonably prove this possibility of life evolving millions of years ago, not today, not tomorrow, never. More importantly, even if you could prove it, God…

The Sabbath’s relevance to the debate about origins

By David C. Read 4. There is a repeated argument unless one believes in six recent literal 24-hour days of creation the validity of Scripture is undermined. Is this really true? We do lots of interpretation of stories in the Bible that are very literal and very concrete. No Adventist really literally believes Luke 16:19-31,…

La Sierra and Battle Creek College

The situation at the La Sierra University Biology Department is reviewed, including material recommended by the Biology Department. A comparison is made with the situation at Battle Creek College, and Ellen White’s response to the situation. For reference, read 5T 21-36. Speaker: Paul Giem Second Look Seminars, most Saturday Mornings at 10:00am at Mortensen Hall,…