Meet the Deans Dean Krahenbuhl's Welcome Assoc. Dean Gutierrez's Welcome Assoc. Dean Sommerfeld's Welcome Assoc. Russell described how the earth orbits the sun and how the sun orbits the center of a vast collection of stars called the Milky Way Galaxy. The world is a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
People come to hold a set of beliefs through observation, reason, personal experience, and faith.
The goal of these outreach efforts is to provide perspectives drawn from observation and reason, from the methods of science. These are not, of course, the only ways of knowing, but they provide an important way of knowing. These presentations will reveal much about the what and how of origins, but not the why. The purpose of creation, the question of why there is something, rather than nothing, must be settled in other forums. The response to these public lectures has been significant in its scope and enthusiasm.