by Sean Pitman . The following news release was sent to my E-mail account this afternoon: “La Sierra University Responds to False Charges by Independent Websites” First off, the argument that Dr. Diaz is a “baptized member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church” is effectively irrelevant to the point of concern. After all, it…
by Sean Pitman . It looks as if La Sierra University is between a rock and a hard place. Not only has LSU just hired a new evolutionary biologist, Dr. Raul Diaz (who believes in and promotes life’s existence and evolution on this planet over hundreds of millions of years), the team from the Western…
By Sean Pitman . It has just come to my attention that La Sierra University has taken on a new evolutionary biologist. As of this month LSU signed on Raul Diaz as an assistant biology professor. Loma Linda University has also taken on Diaz as an adjunct assistant professor in their department for perinatal biology.…
by Sean Pitman . The General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has started the process of reviewing the wording of our statement of Fundamental Beliefs (FB) – all 28 of them (Link). However, special emphasis is being placed on the wording, or re-wording, of FB#6 regarding the nature of the Genesis account of creation. …
By Sean Pitman . Dr. Ben Carson, an innovative and very well-known pediatric neurosurgeon and author from Johns Hopkins University, is scheduled to give the commencement address for, and receive an honorary degree from, Emory University this coming Monday (Update: see a video Dr. Carson’s talk below) . Dr. Carson is a favorite commencement speaker…