Volume 5, Issue 7

Newsletter Date Feb 9, 2013

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LIVING IN A JUNKYARD WITH A DOG

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity, which is that measure God has set to the actions of men, for their mutual security; and so he becomes dangerous to mankind, the tye, which is to secure them from injury and violence, being slighted and broken by him. Which being a trespass against the whole species, and the peace and safety of it, provided for by the law of nature, every man upon this score, by the right he hath to preserve mankind in general, may restrain, or where it is necessary,
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destroy things noxious to them, and so may bring such evil on any one, who hath transgressed that law, as View the world in love, may make him repent the doing of it, and thereby deter him, and by his Gregg example others, from doing the like

Quote of the Week

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

mischief. And in the case, and upon this ground, Continued on page 2
Ogden Nash 1902-1971

Headline Story of the Week

Obamas Drone Attack on Your Due Process
By Noah Feldman Feb 8, 2013 11:49 AM CT The biggest problem with the recently disclosed Obama administration white paper defending the drone killing of radical clerk Anwar al-Awlaki isnt its secrecy or its creative redefinition of the words imminent threat. It is the revolutionary and shocking transformation of the meaning of due process. Fortunately, as seen during John Brennans confirmation hearing for Central Intelligence Agency director, Congress is starting to notice. Due process is the oldest and most essential component of the rule of law. It goes back to the Magna Carta, when the barons insisted that King John agree not to kill anyone or take property without following legal... Click URL to complete story:
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And A Little Child http://www.colsoncenter.org/ the-center/columns/ worldview/19209-and-a-littlechild Devotion of the Week Love Regained
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every man hath a right to punish the offender, and be executioner of the law of nature. John Locke The Problem Jay Leno has a segment on his TV show where he goes out on the street and asks questions about government and history. Easily answerable questions like, what are the three houses of government, who is vice president, when was WWIII (trick question), etc. The people he interviews are usually young adults or foreign nationals. Typically they answer all the questions wrong. Why? Are they stupid? Could it be ignorance of what a free republic is supposed to be? Or is there something more sinister? Knowledge of our government is vital in keeping ourselves free from the tyranny of bad government. Many people are in agreement with the proposition that the United Sates has been experiencing bad government for several years. Our government has methodically been removing our basic rights as citizens of a constitutional republic. The question is why anyone would allow their freedoms to be removed placing them in a cultural and societal dump? Even more perplexing is why anyone would want to be king of such a dump. The rational understanding of success is governing a free prosperous people, not the Societal Dump of the apathetic, poor and enslaved. Unfortunately history tells us the later seems to be the position of choice for the kings. Why is the natural progress of a society entropy and degradation? Why is change seemingly for the worst and never for the better? The proposition Over time societies and cultures undergo changes by electing new leaders with new ideas; sometimes for the good, sometimes for the bad, and sometimes just for the sake of change.

But a governed people will reap the rewards for their good decisions and will suffer the consequences of their bad decisions. The notable leaders who have made poor decisions in our recent history have been T. Roosevelt, Wilson, F.D. Roosevelt, Nixon, Carter, Clinton, Bush (both), and Obama. What the poor decisions were is not applicable to our discussion, it is only necessary to understand that many of the ideas that they carried forward have eroded the constitution and our personal freedoms. The abuse and misuse of power follows a pattern. The process begins with our apathy towards government. This results in our failure to see the contempt that our Kings have for the constitution, for our Judeo-Christian values, and for our guaranteed freedoms. They misuse, we lose freedoms. The allowed

misuse breads abuse. During the final hours of abuse the people become desperate and demands government to take ultimate control to lessen the chaos. Our failure is we dont realize the nature of man and the degree of derision that our politicians have for us. This contemptuous attitude is characteristic of fallen man and thus we suffer the consequences of their contempt. Paradoxically our unwillingness to take responsibility for our lives makes us easy prey. We continually allow ourselves to be convinced of our need for security over freedom. Our politicians with the help of the media have induced us to believe the only way to move safely forward is to continue to elect the same people who perpetrated the crisis and brought about the chaos. Ironically in the morass of cultural decline these privileged are portrayed as spiritual leaders and not as servants of the common good. Their service is to themselves and not to the people who elected them. But wrongly we continue to embrace them enthusiastically. This idolatry leads to the false assumption that government can deliver us from the evils of chaos. Reasonable people understand Spirituality should come from faith and not from government leaders. Looking in all the wrong places

When government is short on answers, it looks to other nations for solutions. The US first looked to Germany and Immanuel Kant which lead to German Idealism and with it the philosophies of Hegel and Marx. Post World War II our institutions garnered leadership from the Frankfurt School of philosophy. If you throw into this mix notables like Darwin and biological evolution, John Maynard Keynes and government back economic optimism, John Dewey and outcome based education, and Sigmund Freud who promoted the idea that self-esteem and sexual determinism have greater value than self-achievement; you then have a formula for a social disaster funded through bad and often corrupt government. Our need to be like other nations is reckless and without merit because of their failures. The headlines offer up a plethora news articles about the failure of socialism in Europe. The results are we allow men without conscience to dictate change that we didnt take the time to understand. Example of this was the obtuse reasoning that we must pass a law before we can understand it. What we have forgotten is that the strength of our nation has been that we have been unlike the other nations. We have grown strong with ideas of inContinued on page 4

dividualism and entrepreneurship. Most have done this on their own without the aid of government. Kings of Chaos If the chaos is to work the people must first be convinced to reject the Judeo-Christian values on which our country was founded. This intrusion into our relationship with God reduces our ability to cope with the chaos. Faith based values strengthen our character and ability to cope with lifes problems. It was those values and principles which made us stronger as a country resulting in the worlds leading economy, strongest military, and the freest of people. Our recent strings of potentates have demanded we reject our values and traditions knowing if you believe in nothing you will fall for anything. The values that we did hold have now become politically incorrect, euphuism for Marxist speech and thought control. This whole process crept in through the government controlled abuse of the educational system. Next, our Kings want to take our finest to serve their causes. The Kings have tried to do this through the military, but our military is too entrenched in esprit de corps and has not yet given in to a Commander and Chief that wants to oppress the people. One King tried to take our finest via the Peace Corps. It was a failure but did serve as a precedent for future Kings. Today the kings use government agencies such as ATF, FEMA and Homeland Security to serve their agenda. The next line of attack is to take our resources by limiting our right to own and keep property. They launch punitive taxes leaving us little and using our money to provide mecha-

nisms to strengthen their armies, secret police, luxurious lifestyles, and to support the dupes that swear allegiance to their authoritarian rule. We ultimately will be left with nothing, not even the right to cry foul. Is there hope There have been many throughout history who has warned us not to make mistake of believing the lie; yet we do not listen. The ideology of the king is not new; yet historically many have fallen into the clutches of those whose only purpose in life is to be the King of The Dump. Our country stands on the precipice of our last denial supposing that the King isnt ready to take the throne. The question becomes do we have the fortitude to say he cant take our best, he cant take our resources, and he cant take our freedoms?

Same data, different interpretations?

Published: 9 February 2013 (GMT+10)

We often emphasize two important points about science and the origins debate: (1) there is a fundamen-

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tal difference between the science of present processes (operational science) and the science of past events (historical science), and (2) historical science in particular is governed by the biases we bring to the data so that people with different worldviews can look at the same data and come to completely different conclusions on what happened. Todays feedback features a skeptic who calls both of those points into question, with a response from CMIs Dr Carl Wieland. Mat H. from the United Kingdom writes in response to Being prepared facing the tough questions Most philosophers, even philosophers of science have little if any experience in the construction of mathematical models and/or data analysis of experimental or observational results. Therefore they are unaware of the nittygritty of science which is important when trying to understand the nature of science and how it is performed. [Your article stated]: This is especially so when it comes to science of the past, especially origins, which is value-laden, interpretation-dependent and assumption-based to an even greater idea than everyday (operational, or experimental) science This statement concerned me a great deal. I have often heard from creationists; Same data different interpretation. This couldnt be more further from the truth, data is analysed, not interpreted. The analysis of data is used to obtain general trends from the data set from which unique conclusions can then be made. It may be the case however that the data set is of particularly poor quality or that it isnt big enough to do decent data analysis which can lead to non-unique conclusions, however in that case, more experiments/ observations are required to get decent data sets.

The terms operational science and origins science are only used in the creationist literature, you wont find them in any science textbook of any worth, so it seems that this is a rather unnatural partition of science in general. I will add that science is all about finding out how the underlying processes that dont change and using these processes to explain past and present data. Carl Wieland responds: Mat, one truly wishes that there were more emphasis on philosophy of science in undergraduate studies, perhaps even high school. The analysis vs interpretation distinction you wish to draw is both fluid and variable. By your own opening statements, you show how you yourself are referring to operational science (aka experimental science). Youre right that creationists are the main users of terms like origins science and operational science, but that is largely because if we used experimental and forensic science, people would mistakenly narrow it down to e.g. exclude certain from the former observational approaches and outcomes where no experiments as such are carried out, or in the second case limit it to crime scene investigation. Let me see if I can spell it out clearly: operational science is all about how the world operates (hence the name) in the present: e.g. what is matter made of, what are the observed regularities in the way the world works (laws of science, etc.). Examples of disciplines utilizing this approach: physics, chemistry, molecular biology. The other methodology.

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