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…

The Heroic Crusade Redux

By Dr. Wesley Kime About a year ago Dr. Ervin Taylor, founding editor-publisher of Adventist Today, emeritus professor of Anthropology at UC Riverside, pioneer apostle of progressive Adventism, famous curator of scientific evidence for eonic Evolution, theistic or otherwise, came over here to proclaim rather formally that Dr. Pitman had undertaken a truly heroic crusade. …

Intelligent Design – Science or Religion?

For those who may be interested, Dr. Sean Pitman recently gave a provocative presentation at Loma Linda University (linked below) as part of Dr. Paul Giem’s Second Look Seminars – a series of presentations on origins.   Dr. Pitman’s topic was: Intelligent Design:  Science or Religion? The talk was based on a review of Judge John…

New Book: “Understanding Creation”

Educate Truth shares the following advertisement for a new book, Understanding Creation, as a service to readers. Understanding Creation: Answers to questions on faith and science From the Publishers: Understanding origins is vitally important to Seventh-day Adventists.  This is not just an issue relegated to the science departments at institutions of higher learning.  Every Seventh-day…