By Sean Pitman The Virtues of Empirically-Blind Faith There are several who frequent this site who are presenting a popular argument that true faith must exist outside of science or empirical evidence – that the weight of empirical evidence for or against the Christian faith in the Divine origin of the Bible shouldn’t matter or…
By Sean Pitman Ervin Taylor, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a long-time supporter, executive publisher, and contributor to the “progressive” journal Adventist Today. In response to my own position that the SDA faith, and Christianity in general, has the support of strong empirical evidence, Dr.…
Posted by Sean Pitman Excerpts from an interesting and relevant article published in the Adventist Review titled, “Pastors Who Don’t Believe”: Wes, a Methodist [minister], lost his confidence in the Bible while attending a liberal Christian college and seminary. “I went to college thinking Adam and Eve were real people,†he explained. Now, he no…
By Sean Pitman From a response to Pastor John Thomas Mclarty in an Atoday discussion blog by Cindy Tutsch entitled, “Who’s a Fundamentalist?” Pastor Mclarty wrote: Cindy, You begin by defining fundamentalism in the context of 20th century American Protestant history and prove that Adventists, even staunchly conservative Adventists, disagree with a crucial element of…
By Sean Pitman In response to interesting comments by Professor Kent (who was responding to a post by Dr. Paul Giem): @Professor Kent: Paul, as you well recognize, one cannot reasonably prove this possibility of life evolving millions of years ago, not today, not tomorrow, never. More importantly, even if you could prove it, God…