This should lay to rest your suggestion that La Sierra …

Comment on LSU Responds to Issues Regarding Dr. Diaz and WASC by A Servant.

This should lay to rest your suggestion that La Sierra has, during the last three years, not been teaching evolution as the origin of life. Many more witnesses are available to me beside these.

A Servant Also Commented

LSU Responds to Issues Regarding Dr. Diaz and WASC
Professor Kent, I have 4 eyewitness testimonies from students who have attended La Sierra during the last three years, that evolution has been promoted repeatedly as the mechanism for the origin of life, according to La Sierra professors on the La Sierra campus. Since I am a medical student at Loma Linda, I have easy access to the campus at La Sierra and often see these friends.

I am not willing to share their names in this forum, because I believe they would receive reprisal from LSU administration or faculty if their identities were revealed. I realize that this gesture of respect for them may make it difficult for you to believe that my report is accurate. However, others who read this blog may judge differently.


Recent Comments by A Servant

Believing the Disproven – An Adventure in Science
@Sean Pitman:
Sean, there are a lot more people that read your site and agree, although they do not comment because they may not be able precisely to articulate a defense against the attacks made on those who speak.


Believing the Disproven – An Adventure in Science
@pauluc:
No, Paul, you are again mistaken. Sean’s position is completely intellectually sound. It just rests on different presuppositions than yours. After years of thorough investigation, I hold the same position as Sean, that any faith tradition that is to influence our behavior in the real world needs to be supported by real-world falsifiable evidence.

Your position seems to rests on the assumption that we believe God without a reason to do so. But you have never given a clear answer to why we should believe in God versus Krishna, tree spirits, or gurus. Do you have a direct answer to this? You evade this question every time Sean or someone else asks it. Worshippers of Krishna or tree spirits have faith, too.


Dr. Jason Rosenhouse “Among the Creationists”
@A Servant:

Hi Dr. Rosenhouse! I have been watching for your reply, but have seen none. It makes it hard for me to favor your arguments if you don’t have a good response to the counterarguments Pitman has presentet. I would still enjoy hearing your reply to Pitman’s specific points in this article.


Dr. Jason Rosenhouse “Among the Creationists”
Hi Dr. Rosenhouse,

I am a graduate student and frequent visitor to this site, and am pleased to see your comment to his article. I appreciate what I sense is a collegial approach on your part to a sensitive topic.

I have independently arrived at similar conclusions as Dr. Pitman has, and am wondering if you have any experimental data with which to counter the argument he presents in this article. I am open-minded to arguments from both sides, and would give your thoughts fair consideration if you wish to share further. Thanks for considering this!


The Adventist Accrediting Association to Approve LSU’s Accreditation
@Pauluc: As a Seventh-day Adventist graduate student, I would be happy to have a teacher like Dr. Pitman in my program. As can be seen by his reply, he is by no means the first Adventist leader to suggest that the earth existed for a long period before the creation of life. If you have any objective dispute or material counterarguments to what he presented in his reply to you, I’d like to hear them. I’m open-minded, but I find that he has made a strong logical case for his position.

At this time, I would respectfully suggest that Dr. Pitman’s teaching far better represents traditional Adventist views than the teaching of many of the biology faculty at La Sierra. This should come as no surprise to long-time readers of this website.