Why I became SDA

Why I became SDA The test is divided into two parts. It is not intended to be a theological or apologetic work, only a description of how I became a Seventh Day Adventist. Let me introduce myself, saying some 'of my story. I recently obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering from UCLA. I have a B.S. Chemistry, State University Fresno. I became a Seventh-Day Adventists after conversion to Christianity in college. Before that, I was a Chan (aka Zen) Buddhist about a decade. I became a Buddhist Chan (now the respect for religion, but a second) after a certain number of years of study Hung Gar Kung Fu under Sifu Mel S., who was (as I understand it, a student Bucksam Kong. (Sifu I have a lot and I hope that one day I can not restore contact and thank him profusely.) Hung Gar is a great martial art that is not asked to trust the development, nature, defense and skills is an 'art which can be studied for a lifetime. If any of you saw Once Upon a Time in China movies (Jet Lee fame), the film on the great Chinese medical and martial artist Sifu Wong Fei Hung. (For information on Hung Gar Head and yet, while in college at Fresno State University (studying chemistry) was convinced that I was a sort of God, after leaing the biochemistry of hemoglobin in my class. I guess that was the teleological argument that I hit. But it seemed hemoglobin so well designed that I thought it was only the result of natural selection. Oddly, when I asked my teacher, "You mean to tell me that [Hb] just happened by chance" I cried at the end of my teacher. He said, "Evolution is the only way they could have come here. Of course, here we are. Therefore, evolution must be true." Ignoring the circular reasoning for a minute and ignoring the benefits of various arguments for and against biological evolution, there is something more about this event taught me. I understood that if we had said that I believed implicitly in the existence of the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus, the professor that I was kindly ignored, I thought that was strange, and changed the subject. It would not have yelled at me. I leaed that for the teacher, was a basic reason for the emotional response as we did. This is not dispassionate scientific reasoning but the emotion. In any case, differ. Hemoglobin I started the path to believe that there is a God of some kind. Exactly what this meant, I did not know at that time. I was not sure what kind of God exists . He had left the Easte religions (ie Buddhism Chan) because I no longer accept a dualistic vision of the world where good and evil was just a matter of perception. (He thought that Hitler and their victims may have the same final fate worries me morally.) So I slept with so-called Weste religions. I began to study the reasons to believe Islam or Christianity were true. Please note that not only is the study of the specific tenets of Islam and Christianity, and then choose the one that I felt more like me or made me feel better, but was trying to decide which was true. (Part II).