Comment on Board requests progress reports from LSU administration by Doug Kendall.
Does the board still not understand that it’s the administration that hired these teachers and is the one protecting them now.
Any reports are going to be in the same tread as the ones already given.
They will continue to say that no problem exists and that they are doing great things at LSU. The last part is true but is no excuse for teaching error. Sin is almost always mixed with truth to hide it’s true charactor. As Ellen White said in John’s post above, this is just giving LSU more time to come up with ways to avoid having to change their teaching style.
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Board requests progress reports from LSU administration
Like Shane said, the frogs/snakes etc don’t need to cross the distance by themselves. Humans could have brought them etc. A lot of animals are now in places they didn’t originally exist due to being cargo etc. Also a lot of things are now extinct due to disease, over hunting, loss or change of habitat etc. It’s not hard to see these things along with others events making the world we know today.
Board requests progress reports from LSU administration
Maybe a simple analogy would shed some light on the situation.
Lets say I worked at a car factory and it was my job to assemble the engine
At some point I decided engines didn’t really need oil anymore to run properly, so I stopped using oil when I put the engines in the cars.
The manufacturer stated that not only was oil to be used but that it had to be a certain kind of oil to perform properly.
When the cars started breaking down shortly after(or even while they were at the factory) they left the factory, people were horrified to find there was no oil in the cars.
They told the supervisor of the plant about the problem, but the supervisor felt that I needed to have engineering freedom and that the other parts of the car worked fine so it wasn’t necessary to do anything.
Cars kept coming out of my factory for many years with no oil.
Some experienced owners recognized the problem when the engine started poorly and put oil in fix the problem. Unfortunately even then some damage was already done. Many other owners found out too late and their engines were ruined or badly damaged.
Just in case it’s not very clear, the cars are our students, the engine is their brains, the engineer is the teacher, and the supervisor is administration. Oil would be our held beliefs as a church (Literal Creation)etc. To make the analogy more accurate; what if the engineer was adding sand (promoting evolution) to the engine instead of oil.
What if you were a shareholder/upper management in that company and found out what was going on? How would you respond? Would you move slowly or quickly. Would you ask for reports or ….?
Board requests progress reports from LSU administration
This is a step in the right direction. It’s sad that we can’t move faster, but that is how large organizations work. It’s all about fear. Fear of doing the wrong thing, fear of doing anything to fast or upsetting anyone.
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Right on the money Sean. This issue seems so clear to many of us, but there are many who have a misunderstanding of God and his ways. We must not judge their hearts. We can however judge many things/actions/ideas to be right or wrong. God has given us his laws and his word for that very reason.
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Amen!
Silence of the Geoscience Research Institute
Very true ICR and AIG are miles ahead of us in most every area. We should be at the front of this Creation vs Evolution Issue, not debating if the Bible is true or not.
Andrews University statement on creation
Very well done. God is honored by the Biblical integrity of this statement.
GC document holds LSU professors accountable
That was a great Statement. Too bad no one gave it much thought, much like the Creation summit statements of 2004.
I am aware the GC recently had meetings on the issue and are working to resolve it. Most of the GC leaders have united in support of literal creation from what I have heard. (this is good news)
However, it’s clear having meetings and giving out statements of support for Creationism isn’t going to change things very much at LSU. (the bad news)
