As expressed many times in the past, I trust Sean …

Comment on My Goal for La Sierra University by Ervin Taylor.

As expressed many times in the past, I trust Sean and his helpers will maintain “EducateTruth” (sic) in a safe archive for the future reference of historians. I’m sure many reasonable people will not believe some of the comments expressed here. They will need to be able to read the record to appreciate the types of people that inhabited various marginal parts of the Adventist Church in the late 20th and early 21st Century.
As an example, this statement is a classic:

“If life on earth was not created in six literal days a few thousand years ago, there is no reason for the Seventh-day Adventist Church to exist at all, and by extension no reason for LaSierra University to exist.”

And to think that some of us thought that the Middle Ages were over. It is alive and well on the “EducateTruth” site.

PS

Please don’t delete “Ron Stone MD” or keep him from posting on your site. He has been barred from all of the responsible Adventist web sites. But we need his continuing diatribes to keep reminding us of the strange flavor of the radical right in Adventism

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My Goal for La Sierra University
Channel provides another breath of fresh air on the EducateTruth(sic) web site.

” People who think . . . that evolution is ‘junk science’ are the same type of people who thought the Earth was the center of the Universe during Galileo’s time.”


My Goal for La Sierra University
Mr. Pickle and Dr. Pitman:

You got me!

I should indeed be more careful in the positing the ratio of the current scientific data supporting young life creationism (YLC) as opposed to scientific evidence that point to a continuous creation of living organisms over billions of years.

When I wrote that YLCs ignore 98% of the scientific data and focus on the 2%, it was somewhat of an exaggeration, but I would not characterize it as a “gross exaggeration.”

However, upon further reflection, these numbers should indeed be modified.

I would now suggest that only be ignoring 97.5% of the relevant scientific data and focusing on 2.5% of the data can young life creationists pretend to be “scientific.”

Thank you for allowing me to revise my statement.


My Goal for La Sierra University
Mr. Brantley brings the fresh air of reality and a reasonable and rational discussion of the issues to the “EducateTruth(sic)” site. I suspect that this will not last long once since the voices of unreason and irrationality will immediately begin to post.


Recent Comments by Ervin Taylor

What does it take to be a true Seventh-day Adventist?
I just noticed Sean’s comment some time ago that “John’s “Revelation” has very little to do with the Roman Empire.”

Perhaps Sean was just trying to be funny or something. If he was serious, then I guess I will have to revise my assumption about his knowledge of the Bible. That was the entire context of the Book of Revelation. But I guess someone who rejects evolution must also have some problems with history.


La Sierra University Hires Another Darwinist
LSU should be congratulated for standing-up against the reactionary forces who wants to turn it into a Bible College. May LSU live long and prosper — as it is doing now with enrollments continuing to increase and new buildings going up.


What does it take to be a true Seventh-day Adventist?
It would appear that Dr. Pitman aspires to be the modern Adventist version of Girolamo Aleandro.

For those a little hazy about the history of the Reformation, Girolamo was the individual appointed as papal nuncio by the Pope to be the theological point person opposing Martin Luther and his theology at the Diet of Worms. (The Diet of Worms was an assembly of churchmen and political elites of the Holy Roman Empire in Germany which met in 1521, not a list of things to eat to reduce your weight. And Worms was not an item on the menu, it was a town).

Girolamo argued that Luther had no right to challenge the church’s theology. That theology had been settled for hundreds of years and had been agreed upon by scores of theologians. It was the truth.

Girolamo wrote the denunciations of Luther that were embodied in the Edict of Worms which declared Luther to be a heretic.

After attending the Diet of Worms, Girolamo went to Brussels and was instrumental at having two monks who had adhered to the teachings of Luther burned at the stake.

Sean, like Girolamo, appears to view his role is to root our heresy where ever he finds it in the Adventist Church.

Fortunately for the rest of us, Sean,
unlike Girolamo, has no power to carry out what he would to see happened to those he denounces as Adventist heretics.


Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
I’m sure that the vast majority of scientifically-informed Adventists will thank Dr.Kent for his every effective and rational approaches to the views expressed by Dr. Pitman and others on this misnamed web site. There is little that needs to be added. Dr. Kent has done a masterful job of exposing the misunderstandings of scientific data dealing with geology and evolutionary biology that has been offered by Dr. Pitman on this and his own web site.


Southern Adventist University opens Origins Exhibit
I see that Professor Kent has been casting pearls of logic and reasonableness before certain types of individuals on the educate truth (sic) web site again. I share with him my amazement at the new insights about inspiration revealed here.