Comment on LSU Faculty Senate supports biology department by Faith.
Ron said:
The problem with this whole discussion is that it fails to deal with the simple fact that we see evoution occuring around us everyday. Not millions of years ago, but NOW, in the laboratory today. Until you can harmonize what you read in the Bible with what we observe in science, the premise of this web site has no reasonable foundation. You can’t expect a few biology teachers to do what the whole denomination has been unable to do in the last 166 years. And not just Adventists, but the whole Christian world. Don’t you think Catholics and Baptists and Lutherans would like to disprove evolution too? Of course they would.
Faith:
So what you are saying then, Ron, is that God has to come up to your academic standard because He was definitely wrong when He said that He had created the earth in 6 literal days. (Of course, He was there and neither you nor all your little evolutionary cohorts were, but…hey…if some dude with initials behind his name said it, it must be true, right?)Obviously He wasn’t privy to your wonderful discoveries in the laboratory, I suppose. (Right–He only knows the end from the beginning.) But you just go right ahead being led around by the nose by those who are willing to defame God and His creation in the name of the god ‘science’.
This shows very clearly who and what you worship–and it isn’t God.
Ron:
The other premise expressed on this site, that evolutionism somehow destroys the value of the Sabbath, or Adventism, I am unwilling to grant. It certainly doesn’t for me.
Faith:
Your above statement, by the way, is a great example of what you have stated you are unwilling to grant.
Ron said: I think is unethical to ask our faithful God fearing Biology teachers to teach something that has no scientific foundation.
Faith: How do you figure these guys are faithful or God-fearing when they are basically calling God a liar at every turn. How can you people be so blind to something so obvious? You all seem to think you are smarter than God, so how could you be so dumb?
You need to get your priorities straight, Ron, if you are going to claim to be an SDA. You see, the SDA church believes in God, His Word, and His creation. If you have lost sight of those facts, you need to get back to the basics.
Faith
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And you are correct, Sean, PK must consider where his influence is going–for God or against Him.
Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
Mr Taylor,
After reading your comment above, I must say PK isn’t the only one in that boat.I would make some comment as to how I really feel about you, but I know Sean will only delete it and you won’t benefit from my insight anyway–seeing as Sean is more concerned about other people’s feelings than you seem to be.
How you have the nerve to come to this website and call us all a bunch of morons (which is really what you are doing) is beyond me. You and your cronies are the ones drowning in error. Anyone who dares to accept man’s opinions over the Bible or SOP isn’t to be trusted to define truth for anyone.
Too straight-forward in my comment? Trust me, I have restrained myself admirably. If you only knew….
Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
Further to my comment on skeptism and our professors, I’ve got to tell you that I found Prof Kent to be extremely annoying in his comments on EGW. He seems to think that she is an embarrassment to the church when she speaks on Science.
Personally I find people who dis her to be the embarrassment to the church. I really don’t see how they dare to contradict and mock God’s prophet. By doing this they undermine a lot of our church’s beliefs to outsiders as well as church members. God will hold them accountable for that.
Furthermore, David’s unpublished manuscript plus other books I have read on archaeology have reported skeletons of the type that EGW mentions. Also found were artifacts such as huge iron bedsteads made for and buried with kings of huge stature.
Just because you haven’t done your research, PK, don’t jump to the conclusion the evidence isn’t there. It’s there, all right, and you make yourself look a little foolish for not knowing about it.
Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
David Read said:
“Ellen White’s statements about larger antediluvian life forms are well attested with regard to many different types of flora and fauna. They’re not even controversial…
Hi David,
As you know, I took advantage of your kind offer and I read your manuscript as well as I purchased 3 of your books, one for me, one for my sisters, and one for the church library. It took me a week to finish the book, and I and my sisters are very impressed with it. My one sister calls it “one incredible book”. It has answered a lot of the questions we had on the subject of evolution vs creation science, and, yes, I believe we (you and I and my sisters) are on the same page in our beliefs. We have immensely enjoyed discussing the various aspects of the subject as we read. It makes perfect sense to us.
I still have a couple of questions–new ones will probably always keep popping up–but I would say you have covered the subject admirably. Thanks so much for this book.
I agree with Elder Wilson, this is something every Adventist should read. In my opinion it should be used as required reading for science courses. It is exactly the way I would want science courses in the universities to treat the Creation/evolution debate in the classroom. And if the professors at LSU and the other SDA institutions would do this we wouldn’t be constantly losing our young people and, for that matter, our professors, to skeptisism.
Thank God someone has the courage to publish the truth and expose error.
God Bless you, David.
Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
Hi Sean and Bill,
I am wondering if the difference of opinion here is due to varying definitions of the word ‘science’. As we all know there is true science and there is worldly psuedo-science.
If Bill’s understanding of ‘science’ in this case is actually worldly psuedo-science, then he is correct in not wanting any truth to be compromised with it.
From Sean’s post, I believe he is referring to true science, which is definitely part of our beliefs on origins and is well supported by the Bible and SOP, as Sean admirably demonstrated.
Not having seen the exhibit myself, I cannot comment on whether or not they are mixing psuedo-science into it. (Perhaps a few of you posters out there can see the exhibit and report back to us.) Knowing the general philosophy of SAU, I would be surprised if they did.
Their goal is “to provide scientific evidence that substantiates the Bible’s account of creation.” Sounds good to me.
They also say: “Religion and science don’t need to be at odds.” And that is true when you are referring to true science, which I believe they are.
However, I do understand Bill’s reaction in that these days when people use the word ‘science’ without qualification it so often means evolutionary pseudoscience, that we tend to be suspicious.
I think, Bill, that in this case we don’t need to worry. I believe SAU’s heart is in the right place and I am so glad that at least one of our institutions is willing to stand up and be counted on the side of Creation, even though they will probably draw much criticism from the ‘scientific’ community as well as from the TEs in their own church.
God bless them for their fidelity to Him. And may God strengthen them to meet the onslaught that is most likely to follow, is my prayer for them.
