Comment on LSU’s Board targets three of its members by Sean Pitman.
Dear Pastor Kris,
You wrote:
I am very disappointed in the methods employed by EducateTruth, especially your willingness to suggest that the administration of LSU is being purposefully deceptive and untruthful (hence,the picture of Pinocchio). I find your behavior to violate your own rules of civility. I’m sorry, but I feel I need to educate you in the truth about your own behavior.
The administrators of LSU are fully aware that their own professors not only believe in mainstream evolutionary theories of life existing and evolving on this planet over many millions of years, but also promote such beliefs as the true story of origins in their classrooms.
This fact is no secret to LSU’s administrators who use slick language to cover up what they know is true. They say, “Everyone is a creationist here at LSU” when they know that most of their science professors do no believe nor do they promote the idea that God created life on this planet in six literal days according to the SDA understanding of origins. Yet, these same administrators say, “LSU is in full support of all of the SDA Fundamental Beliefs.” They say this because of what they consider to be a deliberate vagueness in the wording of FB#6 which allows them to interpret the “days” of creation to be symbolic days representative of indefinite periods of time.
Most recently the LSU administrators have been making an even more erroneous claim saying, “LSU professors only teach ‘about’ evolution, but don’t promote it”. This is an outright lie, and the LSU administrators know it. These public statements by LSU’s administrators are deliberately deceptive. If you have another word for it, or any information that suggest that I am mistaken here, by all means do let me know. I’d be very glad to see that I am in fact in error in this regard.
As the situation currently stands, the evidence as to what is really being promoted at LSU is overwhelming. Please refer to the following link for a few key details if you have not yet done your own research into this particular situation:
http://www.educatetruth.com/featured/lsu-pr-department-vs-lsu-biology-professors/
Given just this information (and there is much more listed in this forum), how is it that any school board at any SDA school would be within generally accepted practice to keep such information from the higher-level institution who’s name they bear? Two of LSU’s board members who “leaked” truthful information, not to EducateTruth, but to invited representatives of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, are being “disciplined” for this action – – Why?
To argue, as you do, that the GC does not have the right to know what is actually going on within its own schools is very hard to swallow. I don’t think many would agree with you within the SDA Church. Parents and the Church constituency at large have a right to know what our young people are being taught as “the truth” within our own schools. At the very least we deserve open and honest transparency in this regard. This isn’t some minor private issue. This is a serious problem that affects us all in one way or another…
Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com
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