The Press-Enterprise reported this week that over 5,600 people have signed on to a petition affiliated with Educate Truth, the web site that has aligned itself against La Sierra University’s biology faculty. Shane Hilde, the creator of the website and petition, revealed on the website’s petition page that he intends to take printed copies of petition’s signatures and comments to La Sierra University’s meetings of the Board of Trustees, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.

On May 29, Spectrum reported on a web site attacking La Sierra University for employing faculty members who teach naturalistic evolution.

As a mathematician and scientist who engages in cross-disciplinary research, I have had to spend a lot of time thinking about how various disciplines differ and how they fit together. My interest in this subject first began, however, in college and graduate school where I was regularly exposed to the quarrels and prejudices between academic disciplines and sub-disciplines. Distaste often develops along the lines of “pure vs. applied”. For example, some pure mathematicians disdain applications and consider the methods of physics to be “hand-waving”.

The intensive internet discussion of origins that has taken place at multiple Adventist web sites in the past month moved to the General Conference this week when the issue made its way onto the agenda of the committee of church officers known as PREXAD.

Today (Friday) a statement was released by Jan Paulsen appealing to all “engaged by our church in the ministries of administration, preaching, teaching, and writing to articulate and reflect our stand as a community on Creation.”

1. Science education at Adventist universities is called to be truly university-quality education, not indoctrination. This means that students must be taught: