It seems to me that Christianity started out as a …

Comment on Famous Evangelical Scholar Resigns Over Evolution by Sean Pitman.

It seems to me that Christianity started out as a “cult”, out of touch with mainstream thinking and “reality”, and will end up just as out of touch as it started in a very secular post-modern world. Mainstream reality should not be the basis of the Christian Faith or Gospel message…

The SDA faith is also “confessional” in a sense and our pastors and teachers should be held to this confessional standard. I agree with Milton’s comment that “academic freedom” within the Church should end where the confessional pillars of faith of the Church, as an organization, begin. The individual, regardless of how important or famous he or she may be, is not to be free to undermine the Church’s fundamental goals and ideals on the Church’s dime…

Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com

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Famous Evangelical Scholar Resigns Over Evolution
@Eddie:

As I have mentioned in other threads, SDA professors with PhD degrees in some institutions are paid less–in some cases up to 25% less–than SDA primary and secondary school teachers on the same campus. Can we really expect to recruit bright and aspiring SDA students to become professors who may be perpetually in debt to credit cards, will usually drive a clunker more than 10 years old, and may never afford to buy a home?

Of course not. This is a real problem. If the SDA Church is really serious about its educational system, it will have to become much more serious about the way it compensates its professors or it will very quickly not have anyone willing to work in an SDA school who is actually good at what they do…

Just add this to the list of the many very serious problems the SDA Church is facing today. The active promotion of evolutionary doctrines in our schools is by no means the only problem. However, this website is not intended to address every problem within the SDA Church – even related problems. There is only one targeted problem being addressed here – the promotion of the theory of evolution at LSU as the true story of origins. And, we are unapologetic about this sharp focus on one particular issue here at EdTruth. If this particular problem is at least recognized, officially, for the serious problem that it is, the other problems that you mention here are very likely to be addressed at the same time…

Of course, you could start your own campaign in an effort to better address such problems – problems which you do not think are being effectively addressed in forums such as this one. I would certainly applaud such an effort. Becoming good friends with someone like Bill Gates would be a great start! ; )

Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com


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