@Mark Houston: …No no no – ouch! The strong nuclear …

Comment on Silence of the Geoscience Research Institute by Sean Pitman.

@Mark Houston:

…No no no – ouch! The strong nuclear force is *not* “released” during a fusion reaction (or at any other time) – this quote is a clear demonstration of a significant lack of physical knowledge (to put it in friendly terms).

Energy is “released” during the fusion reaction and the strong nuclear force is involved with how much energy is released. D-T fusion reaction is very highly exothermic, making it a powerful energy source. Perhaps this is what Bob Ryan was trying to say…

For further information on this topic see:

http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/nuclear-fusion/requirements-for-fusion.html

Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com

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@Geanna Dane:

Even Sean would not label those at LSU at traitors! Or would he?

No, I would not. I think the professors at LSU are mistaken in their views on origins. I also think they are mistaken in their willingness to take money from the SDA Church while directly countering the stated fundamental goals and ideals of the Church. I think that this is a form of stealing from the time and money of the Church. However, I don’t think that the LSU professors or leadership consciously recognize this concept. I think that they think that they are truly being upright and honest and are doing the best they can with what they think they know. I think that they are being sincere…

Therefore I do not think it right to label them as “traitors”.

Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com


Silence of the Geoscience Research Institute
@Geanna Dane:

Oh yeah, you forgot in you zeal that no one at LSU has reportedly denied that God is the Creator.

Indeed! That is the standard line I’ve heard for many years at LSU – “We all believe in the Creator God here at LSU”. And, they do! They just don’t believe in the type of Creator God that the SDA Church is trying to promote as creating life on this planet during a literal creation week. They believe in a Creator God who used a very painful evolutionary mechanism to create life and its diversity over hundreds of millions of years with a process that required the suffering and death of billions of sentient creatures. We aren’t talking orange peals or some pin prick on the finger here. We are talking about the extreme suffering and pain of highly intelligent creatures as a key part of a deliberately chosen creative process.

That picture of God is very different from the picture of God that the SDA Church, as an organization, is trying to promote as “fundamentally” true – a God who feels pain when even a little sparrow falls wounded to the ground and is working to eradicate the current order of this world where pain, suffering, and death reign supreme but were never intended in God’s ideal plan for us or for any of the intelligent creatures that share our suffering with us.

The effort to maintain this perspective is not an effort to judge the morality of anyone who disagrees with us (at least this is not the case for me). It is, rather, an effort to maintain, as an organization, a view of God that we, or at least I, consider to be special and important to share with the world… a very hopeful view of God and of our own future with God.

Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com


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