The evidence is what the evidence is. Simply look …

Comment on La Sierra “outraged” over Educate Truth article by Roger Seheult.

The evidence is what the evidence is. Simply look at the syllabus:
http://www.detectingdesign.com/

In McCloskey’s Biology 112 presentation (third lecture, slide 10) it says:

“There is nothing “theoretical” about the evidence supporting evolution. The research about evolution is ongoing and continues to support and refine Darwin’s original ideas. No data have been found to refute the idea. It is the single unifying explanation of the living world, and nothing makes much, if any, sense outside of this unifying theory.”

I love the “no data” part. It is completely false – but that is for another time. I guess this student forgot about that part of the syllabus or interpreted it differently from how I do. It sounds to me from the syllabus that if you want to believe science you have no choice but to believe evolution. That’s not the flavor of the PR video. She says that professors were simply teaching evolution because you need to know about it if you want to go to graduate school later on – you need to know what other people are talking about. She also went on to say that her professors went on and on about how the cell was perfectly made by God. There is a stark contrast between these professed realities. Can anyone please explain this difference to me? Really.

Roger Seheult Also Commented

La Sierra “outraged” over Educate Truth article
I don’t get the “thumbs down” on my last post? Really – there’s nothing controversial about it. Would the person who clicked it please tell me what was so wrong (unfactual, incorrect) about what I stated. It was simply a statement of the facts – not much opinion at all. I think we have “thumbs down inflation”


Recent Comments by Roger Seheult

Faith without Evidence: Are we really a bunch of ‘Flat Earthers’?
There are too many of them. Where do I start. https://www.swau.edu/dinosaur-research-draws-world-wide-acclaim-inspires-new-tv-series
Mary Schweitzer’s T-rex.

That’s just off the top….
wait another one –
Walter Veith….
wait more….


Faith without Evidence: Are we really a bunch of ‘Flat Earthers’?
Ad hominum attack means that no other better arguments were available at the time of writing. I win.


Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
@Ervin Taylor:

I literally have not logged on to this website in years. It looks like the same arguments are going back and forth which means that if you haven’t been able to solve them by now, you aren’t going to convence each other of your points. What is really amazing to me and anyone intersted in the topic, however, is the tone of the comments, which usually reveal the maturity of the writer especially if they include absolutes:

Examples:
“vast majority of scientifically-informed Adventists will thank Dr.Kent ”

“this misnamed web site”

“Dr. Kent has done a masterful job”

These are usually tip-offs to a lot. Also, it makes me wonder that if Sean Pitman is so ill-informed, and he operates on such a mis-leading web site, why does the good Dr. Taylor waste his time coming to this website, reading the material and then commenting on it? In fact I can bet that Dr. Taylor has spent more time on this web site then I have in the last year – and that speaks volumes about what Dr. Taylor really thinks of this website – perhaps the good Dr. Kent as well.


The Metamorphosis of La Sierra University: an eye-witness account
Again, the question is begged: Why would they work so hard to change the university rather than just leave and go where universities already believe the way you do? Dare I say that there lies a larger conspiracy that transcends LSU and that may be going on at your local SDA instituation? Again, why the push over a generation to change a whole university and to denude it of its fundamentals?


Educate Truth’s purpose and goals
Most of the blogs that are critical of this site aren’t interested in what this site is really out to do. They simply want to demonize it ergo Alinsky’s rule of indetify, demonize, and marginalize. Hence their cherry picking from the comments for their own purposes.

Thanks for the recap though.