I just want to express my appreciation for Educate Truth …

Comment on My Goal for La Sierra University by Ralph Clark.

I just want to express my appreciation for Educate Truth and the posters here. I especially enjoy reading the discussions between Bros. Pitman, Brantley, Kent, and Read. I think you all make important contributions to the subject at hand. I believe each of you has enriched this community by your contributions, and I’m glad you have taken the time and energy to express your beliefs and convictions. You have each made heroic attempts to be understood in the face of seeming obstinacy on the part of others.

Notwithstanding the value I see in these discussions, I am also grieved by what I perceive as personal jibes at each other that often accompany your discourses. I would gently challenge each of you to read your posts after writing, not merely to polish your presentations to make them more readily understandable, but to see if you can express your beliefs and convictions with greater respect and deference for each other. I love the quote “In the advocacy of truth the bitterest opponents should be treated with respect and deference,” and how much more so ought we who are joined in the body of Christ.

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My Goal for La Sierra University
Is anyone going to the Geoscience Research Institute Conference on Teaching Origins, held in Alberta, Canada from July 28 to August 2, 2011? http://www.grisda.org/2011-banff/

Here is the program schedule:

http://www.grisda.org/2011-banff/program.htm

It looks to me like good things are happening in our church in this area.


My Goal for La Sierra University

Professor Kent: The survey summary lumped “agreed” and “neutral” responses to the pertinent question, leaving doubt as to what students thought.

For what it’s worth, the full unaggregated survey results can be found in attachment 3 starting on page 16 of this document: http://www.lasierra.edu/fileadmin/documents/provost/LSU_Board_Report.pdf

Please note Attachment 4, as well, which outlines specific actions they have taken and plan to take in addressing the issues under discussion. It is clear from this document that La Sierra University is taking specific steps to address these issues. While there may be some resistance on the part of some faculty and administrators, I cannot see how we can in good faith declare that nothing is changing and that they are not addressing the issues.


My Goal for La Sierra University
As I understand it, the thrust of ID authors, such as Steven Meyers in his book Signature in the Cell, is to show that natural processes are unable to account for the rise of life. That is, they are saying that it is impossible to account for life by natural processes without intelligent intervention.

If making such an assertion is really outside the bounds of science, then isn’t falsification of naturalistic evolution as a broad concept outside the bounds of science, by definition? If a theory isn’t falsifiable, then it isn’t fully testable, and therefore isn’t a valid theory. My impression is that evolutionists try to get around this problem by claiming that specific theories within the evolutionary paradigm are falsifiable.

Now either naturalistic evolution in some form or another is true, or it is not true. If it is not true, then the popular definition of science is simply a false definition, isn’t it? In other words, it is “science falsely so called.” 1 Tim. 6:20.