PUC Student: @Charles: Sure, but if growth is how you measure …

Comment on Two Adventist Universities Promote Six-Day Creation by Holly Pham.

PUC Student:
@Charles:

Sure, but if growth is how you measure success, you should know that among Adventist universities, Washington Adventist University had the most growth, La Sierra second and PUC third going into this school year. Our Campus Chronicle at PUC also reported that our enrollment increased between Fall and Winter quarter.

This isn’t to bash Southern or SWAU. I support all of our Adventist universities including Southern, SWAU, WAU, La Sierra, PUC and the others.

Does PUC have results of the student enrollment over the past ten years of so, and how this breaks down into SDA vs. non-SDA? I would be interested in knowing this.

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One of the best ways to actually see what institutions stand for is to see what they say for themselves. A great example of this is in the latest Pacific Union Recorder (March 2012).

SAU has two ads for professors, one Biology and one Chemistry, spelling out their requirements of being a supporter of SDA beliefs, including Biblical creationism.

La Sierra, on the other hand, has an ad for a Biology Professor position, which has the only requirement being a “PhD.”


Two Adventist Universities Promote Six-Day Creation

Faith: I’d say that’s an excellent question, Charles. One that perhaps the ‘educated’ might want to ponder a little more. They seem to think they are so brilliant that they know more than God. Yet, in all the years since they have begun this rebellion against their Creator, not one of them has been able to create that spark of life. And they never will. That is God’s province and His alone.

I agree completely. Didn’t someone in the 1950’s try some experiment to “create life” from nonliving matter. Why haven’t we seen hundreds or thousands of further experiments to accomplish this? Has anyone tried? Why or why not? Seems to me that it failed and nobody has even tried to continue to do the impossible.


Two Adventist Universities Promote Six-Day Creation

PUC Student:
@Charles:

Sure, but if growth is how you measure success, you should know that among Adventist universities, Washington Adventist University had the most growth, La Sierra second and PUC third going into this school year. Our Campus Chronicle at PUC also reported that our enrollment increased between Fall and Winter quarter.

This isn’t to bash Southern or SWAU. I support all of our Adventist universities including Southern, SWAU, WAU, La Sierra, PUC and the others.

Care to tell us what percentage of PUC students are non-SDA? Was this published? And, how has the percentage of non-SDA students changed over the past decade of so?


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