On November 28, 2023, Lee Cronin and James Tour had a debate regarding the origin of life research (Harvard Cambridge Faculty Roundtable). Tour argued that Origin of Life research is a scam that has made absolutely no progress in understanding how non-living things could give rise to living things via mindless natural mechanisms, while Cronin…
I just finished watching three interesting discussions between Rob Stadler and James Tour comparing the potential and limits of Darwinian-style naturalistic evolution vs. what one should expect if intelligent design were required to explain the diversity between major kinds of living things (see videos below). Both of these scientists have a high degree of relevant…
I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised that yet another pastor and leader within the Seventh-day Adventist Church has published an article supporting theistic evolution over vast spans of time on this Earth. Elder Scott A. LeMert, retired pastor at the Sunnyside SDA Church in Portland Orgeon, published an article yesterday in Spectrum Magazine entitled,…
This is an Open Letter to Elders Bradford Newton and Erton Köhler, Presidents of the Pacific Union and General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This letter is in regard to an article published in the most recent Pacific Union Recorder by the Editor Alberto Valenzuela, promoting the Darwinian story of origins as being superior to…
I was pretty surprised today to be sent this month’s copy of the Pacific Union Recorder, a Seventh-day Adventist publication representing the Pacific Union of the Church, containing an article written by Alberto Valenzuela, the Editor of the Recorder, entitled, “Honoring God Through Science and Scripture” (Link, Link). I was expecting a nice article supporting…