@Phillip Brantley: Quote: “Dr. Pitman, You should understand that the …

Comment on My Goal for La Sierra University by Wesley Kime.

@Phillip Brantley: Quote: “Dr. Pitman, You should understand that the issue is not whether Intelligent Design [you mean Genesis 1?] possesses theological/philosophical merit. It does. …Utterly”

Professor Brantley: Rhetorically exquisite, utterly, those balanced declarative sentences, those magisterial adjectives, those crystalline fiats,. those and the rest, the implied slow-wittedness summarily dealt with. Exciting! Utterly exemplary! May I try it? No? Really? Why not? Oh well, here goes:

So it is to be understood [may I depart from the template and use the passive voice? A little less implied diss] that the issue is not whether Evo, theistic or orthodox, has theological/philosophical merit. It does. Reeks of it. More and more every day. Transparently, patently, compellingly, it is in a theology class, even a philosophy class, not in a scientific class, that Evo is be taught, especially at Harvard.

And so on.

Wesley Kime Also Commented

My Goal for La Sierra University
This seems a pretty sleepy thread right now, so I’ll post an observation here while everybody is otherwise occupied.

Doctrinaire Evolutionists cringe and ram their fingers into their ears at any scientific talk of intelligent design. But, oh, the breathless rhapsodizing of the megaintelligence of Evolution and the extremely smart Evolutionary decisions on those pop-sci Evoramas on, say, the Science Channel! Makes your ears ring.


My Goal for La Sierra University
All this gratuitous hullabaloo about ID (the science, not the Institute) not being science at all reminds me (as much a painter as pathologist) of how, in 1870, Impressionism was dismissed by the academics as hardly art at all, too undisciplined, too unrealistic, too parochial, too sloppy, too blobby. Disrespectful. Stupid. A sad waste of paint. And later, after Impressionism became the state religion like Christianity under Constantine, how John Singer Sargent’s painting was, if art, not FINE art, if art at all. Not creative, not loose enough, not unrealistic enough, not blobby. Mindlessly obsequious. A sad waste of talent. ID can’t be science, it’s too…whatever.


My Goal for La Sierra University
There has been a recent spate of encomiums for beloved LSU biology professors by LSU graduates, and, being one myself, a biology major, I want to join in.

Of all my professors, and I’ve had a slew of them, high school, college, medical school, my major professor was perhaps the most memorable. As admirable as any professor I ever had, including those at Harvard’s and Washington University’s graduate medical programs. My La Sierra major professor loved biology, taught it passionately with a burden to thoroughly teach and familiarize students with all data relating to all hypotheses, especially evolution (I’ll always remember that famous old embryology diagram demonstrating that “ontology begets phylogeny”). He stood in front of his class and he taught what he himself believed, ardently. He ardently and openly believed Genesis 1. Pity, for UCLA therefore granted Prof. Downs only an M.A. I am LSU (then LSC) class of 1948.

Now I spryly, as spryly as my aged joints allow, pop aside for the instant onslaught of posts decrying Bible College LSC’s embarrassing cultural, scientific, theological, biological, artistic, philosophical, sociological, mental, political, intellectual, hermeneutical ignorance — unrefined, unenlightened, primal, primeval, autistic … and so on. Excuse me while I take my nap. Carry on.


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I accept that I must accept it, wholly, actively, even with agony, with my whole being.