@ D. Fender: You’ve certainly clarified the meaning of malicious and …

Comment on AAA to examine LSU by Professor Kent.

@ D. Fender:

You’ve certainly clarified the meaning of malicious and defamatory.

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AAA to examine LSU
@ Johnny Vance

Are you saying it’s better to keep our biology departments open even though it’ll be teaching heresy? It’s better to close our colleges than to hand them over to error with the Seventh-day Adventist name still on them.

No, I’m not saying that. You keep the departments open and work with the people you have, the majority of which are extremely supportive of the Church.

I’m totally behind the concept that SDA biologists must support and teach SDA beliefs with respect. However, I’m opposed to “exposing,” labeling as “theives,” and firing those who don’t teach Pitman’s personal interpretation that the “weight of evidence supports the Church’s position.” Pitman’s interpretation is one that the Church has never required–and never will–of its university professors. And the Church will never embrace his notion that evidence trumps faith. Never.


AAA to examine LSU
Wesley, I would like to meet you one day in heaven where we can embrace. In the meanwhile, I’m an academic who interacts daily with non-SDAs and non-believers at a non-denominational institution I am comfortable at. I treat these people with utmost respect, and I get the same in return. I get many opportunities to witness to these people, mostly because they know I am a devoted Christian who engages in serious science, and they are curious as to what I believe. I love to share, but only when asked or find an opportune moment. I’m told that I’m “different” as a Christian because I do not criticize or condemn others for their unbelief. I’m also seen as open-minded and generally supportive of others, but willing to defend those who are mistreated. Apparently, these qualities may be seen as flaws as an Adventist, but I am what I am, and I’m not walking away from the Church no matter how imperfect and unpurified it is.

I am disinclined to reveal my identify here for fear that colleagues and students who look me up will read all the horrific stuff at this website. I can assure you they would find Adventism to be disgusting and nauseating. I don’t want them to see this side of us. I love my God and love my Church and weep at the way Christians too often treat each other…and defend the harsh treatment as a “duty.”

So that’s why I am content to be known only as Professor Kent.

God bless you, Wesley.


AAA to examine LSU
As Geanna once wrote, it is finished.


Recent Comments by Professor Kent

Gary Gilbert, Spectrum, and Pseudogenes
Nic&#032Samojluk: No wonder most creationist writers do not even try to submit their papers to such organizations.
Who wants to waste his/her time trying to enter through a door that is closed to him/her a priori?

You have no idea what you’re writing about, Nic. As it turns out, there are in fact many of us Adventists who “waste” our time publishing articles through doors that open to us a priori. Even Leonard Brand at Loma Linda, a widely recognized creationist, has published in the top geology journals. I mean the top journals in the discipline.

The myth that creationists cannot publish in mainstream science is perpetuated by people who simply do not understand the culture of science–and will remain clueless that they do not understand it even when confronted with their misunderstandings. Such is human nature.


Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
Pauluc,

Your questions about conservation genetics are very insightful. I don’t understand how all these life forms were able to greatly increase in genetic diversity while simultaneously winding down and losing genetic information to mutations. Sean seems to insist that both processes happen simultaneously. I had the impression he has insisted all along that the former cannot overcome the latter. But I think you must be right: God had to intervene to alter the course of nature. However, we can probably test this empirically because there must be a signature of evidence available in the DNA. I’ll bet Sean can find the evidence for this.

I’m also glad the predators (just 2 of most such species) in the ark had enough clean animals (14 of each such species) to eat during the deluge and in the months and years after they emerged from the ark that they didn’t wipe out the vast majority of animal species through predation. Maybe they all consumed manna while in the ark and during the first few months or years afterward. Perhaps Sean can find in the literature a gene for a single digestive enzyme that is common to all predatory animals, from the lowest invertebrate to the highest vertebrate. Now that would be amazing.

Wait a minute–I remember once being told that SDA biologists like Art Chadwick believe that some animals survived on floating vegetation outside the ark. Now that would solve some of these very real problems! I wonder whether readers here would allow for this possibility. Multiple arks without walls, roof, and human caretakers.


Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit

Ellen White said, “In the days of Noah, men…many times larger than now exist, were buried, and thus preserved as an evidence to later generations that the antediluvians [presumably referring to humans] perished by a flood. God designed that the discovery of these things should establish faith in inspired history…”

Sean Pitman said, “All human fossils discovered so far are Tertiary or post-Flood fossils. There are no known antediluvian human fossils.”

Ellen White tells us that humans and dinosaurs (presumably referred to in the statement, “a class of very large animals which perished at the flood… mammoth animals”) lived together before the flood. Evolutionary biologists tell us that dinosaurs and humans never lived together. You’re telling us, Sean, that the fossil record supports the conclusion of evolutionists rather than that of Ellen White and the SDA Church. Many of the “very large animals which perished at the flood” are found only in fossil deposits prior to or attributed to the flood, whereas hunans occur in fossil deposits only after the flood (when their numbers were most scarce).

Should the SDA biologists, who are supposed to teach “creation science,” be fired if they teach what you have just conceded?


La Sierra Univeristy Fires Dr. Lee Greer; Signs anti-Creation Bond
For those aghast about the LSU situation and wondering what other SDA institutions have taken out bonds, hold on to your britches. You’ll be stunned when you learn (soon) how many of our other schools, and which ones in particular, have taken out these bonds. You will be amazed to learn just how many other administrators have deliberately secularized their institutions besides Randal Wisbey, presumably because they too hate the SDA Church (as David Read has put it so tactfully).

Be sure to protest equally loudly.


Gary Gilbert, Spectrum, and Pseudogenes
@Sean Pitman:

So clearly you believe that science can explain supernatural events. Congratulations on that.