I’ve always resisted referring to LaSierra as “LSU” because where …

Comment on Deal with LSU by David Read.

I’ve always resisted referring to LaSierra as “LSU” because where I come from those initials universally refer to Louisiana State University. Whenever I read “LSU” I think of those yellow helmets and yellow and purple uniforms, and the usually top-ranked football teams from Baton Rouge.

But now I’m thinking that “LSU” is an appropriate designation for LaSierra. Because what they teach at LaSierra is pretty much indistinguishable from what they teach at the real LSU. LaSierra is just another public university wannabe, without the football team.

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Deal with LSU
@Bob Pickle: Bob Pickle, I don’t know where you can find the full 60 minutes program. I saw the video at Sean Pitman’s site “detecting design”; he edited it together. He might be of more help to you.

There’s an interesting article about protein sequencing of the soft dino tissue here: http://www.icr.org/article/4949/. Relates the following conversation between Jack Horner and Mary Schweitzer:

When Mary was first working on this material, she called me up to say she had found osteocytes. I assumed she meant the spaces where the osteocytes would have been, which is what I suggested.

“No, Jack, actually we have the cells and they have filipodia and they have nuclei.”

“Mary, the freaking creationists are just going to love you.”

“Jack, it’s your dinosaur.”


Deal with LSU
Sean, I just went to your site and watched the Cliff Goldstein video, and also checked out your new Mary Schweitzer video. You did a great job of editing together the 60 minutes interview and some other interviews. For people who are open to the truth, the Schweitzer discoveries blow the doors off of long-ages geology.

Everone who hasn’t done so should check out this video:

http://www.viddler.com/explore/Seanpit/videos/19/


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The Reptile King
Poor Larry Geraty! He can’t understand why anyone would think him sympathetic to theistic evolution. Well, for starters, he wrote this for Spectrum last year:

“Christ tells us they will know us by our love, not by our commitment to a seven literal historical, consecutive, contiguous 24-hour day week of creation 6,000 years ago which is NOT in Genesis no matter how much the fundamentalist wing of the church would like to see it there.”

“Fundamental Belief No. 6 uses Biblical language to which we can all agree; once you start interpreting it according to anyone’s preference you begin to cut out members who have a different interpretation. I wholeheartedly affirm Scripture, but NOT the extra-Biblical interpretation of the Michigan Conference.”

So the traditional Adventist interpretation of Genesis is an “extra-Biblical interpretation” put forward by “the fundamentalist wing” of the SDA Church? What are people supposed to think about Larry Geraty’s views?

It is no mystery how LaSierra got in the condition it is in.


The Reptile King
Professor Kent says:

“I don’t do ‘orgins science.’ Not a single publication on the topic. I study contemporary biology. Plenty of publications.”

So, if you did science that related to origins, you would do it pursuant to the biblical paradigm, that is pursuant to the assumption that Genesis 1-11 is true history, correct?


The Reptile King
Well, Jeff, would it work better for you if we just closed the biology and religion departments? I’m open to that as a possible solution.


The Reptile King
Larry Geraty really did a job on LaSierra. Personally I think it is way gone, compromised beyond hope. The SDA Church should just cut its ties to LaSierra, and cut its losses.

As to the discussion on this thread, round up the usual suspects and their usual arguments.


La Sierra University Resignation Saga: Stranger-than-Fiction
It is a remarkably fair and unbiased article, and a pretty fair summary of what was said in the recorded conversation.