La Sierra University Looking for New Biology Professor

Biology, Assistant – Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Tenure Track) Brief Description The Department of Biology at La Sierra University is recruiting for full-time, tenure track positions beginning September 2012. Qualifications A successful candidate must have a record of effective teaching and scholarship commensurate with academic experience, demonstrated ability to teach undergraduate science courses and labs, ability…

Dr. John Sanford Lectures on Inevitable Genomic Deterioration

Dr. John C. Sanford, well-known scientist, Associate Professor of at Cornell University, plant geneticist, and inventor of the “gene gun”, recently gave a talk at Loma Linda University (as part of Dr. Paul Giem’s Creation lecture series) on “Genomic Entropy” or the inevitable genetic deterioration and eventual extinction of humans within a relatively short period…

The God of the Gaps

By Sean Pitman The term “God-of-the-gaps argument” is often used to refer to a position that assumes an act of God as the explanation for any unknown phenomenon – which is a variant of an argument from ignorance. The origin of the term goes back to Henry Drummond, a 19th-century evangelist lecturer, from his Lowell…