@ProfessorKent: Only hatred and intolerance can motivate those who so …

Comment on La Sierra Univeristy Fires Dr. Lee Greer; Signs anti-Creation Bond by Sean Pitman.

@ProfessorKent:

Only hatred and intolerance can motivate those who so enthusiastically undermine the Church’s doctrine on unity.

I don’t hate evolutionists. Many of my very good friends are evolutionist, some are agnostic, and a few are atheists. Yet, we get along great. The difference, you see, is that they don’t expect to get a paycheck from the SDA Church for promoting their neo-Darwinian views…

2 Corinthians 6:15

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La Sierra Univeristy Fires Dr. Lee Greer; Signs anti-Creation Bond
@Professor Kent:

All Adventist school boards, and I’m sure there are many, who have taken out state bonds with such restrictive language are not wise. They have placed another one of our schools at the mercy of the civil government to tolerate that which the bond language itself does not allow…

How long will the State continue to turn a blind eye is anyone’s guess, but it will not be forever. Eventually the State will enforce the bond-agreement language which gives the state power over all those who have accepted such bonds in perpetuity for the entire life of the bonded buildings.

Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com


La Sierra Univeristy Fires Dr. Lee Greer; Signs anti-Creation Bond
@Professor Kent:

All the worse for Richardo Graham. He should never have agreed to the restrictive language of the bond agreement or bond application…

Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com


La Sierra Univeristy Fires Dr. Lee Greer; Signs anti-Creation Bond
@Phillip Brantley:

I’m in full agreement with the First Amendment, the separation of church and state, within state institutions. I am not in favor of making any building on any of our school campuses a state institution.

Just because the language of the bond is “boilerplate language” does not mean that its legal implications are not really binding.

You also wrote:

The Seventh-day Adventist Church does not take a position regarding the scientific merits of ID, neo-Darwinism, or the critiques of neo-Darwinism.

Yet, the General Conference Executive Committee, at its 2004 Annual Council, did in fact ask all professors in SDA schools to present a “scientifically rigorous affirmation of our historic belief in a literal, recent six-day creation”.

“We call on all boards and educators at Seventh-day Adventist institutions at all levels to continue upholding and advocating the church’s position on origins. We, along with Seventh-day Adventist parents, expect students to receive a thorough, balanced, and scientifically rigorous exposure to and affirmation of our historic belief in a literal, recent six-day creation, even as they are educated to understand and assess competing philosophies of origins that dominate scientific discussion in the contemporary world.”

http://adventist.org/beliefs/statements/main-stat55.html

Sounds to me like the SDA Church does in fact support the promotion of the scientific evidence for our position on origins – which obviously can’t be done in the science buildings at La Sierra University.

Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com


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