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 Love Regained http://www.colsoncenter.org/the-center/columns/ ancient-paths/18653-love-regained  

View the world in love,Gregg

 In transgressing the law of na-

ture, 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 be-

comes dangerous to mankind, thetye, 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 peaceand safety of it, provided for bythe 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,

destroy things noxious to them, and 

 so may bring such evil on any one,who hath transgressed that law, as

may make him repent the doing of it, and thereby deter him, and by his

example others, from doing the like

mischief. And in the case, and upon

this ground, Continued on page 2

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Headline Story of the Week

 By Noah Feldman  Feb 8, 2013

11:49 AM CT 

The biggest problem with the

recently disclosed Obama ad-

ministration white paper  de-

fending the drone killing of 

radical clerk Anwar al-Awlaki 

isn’t its secrecy or its creative

redefinition of the words

“imminent threat.” It is therevolutionary and shocking

transformation of the meaning

of due process.

Fortunately, as seen during

John Brennan’s 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 with-

out following legal…...

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Newsletter Date Feb 9, 2013Volume 5, Issue 7

Christian Worldview

Weekly

The Colson Corner

Quote of the Week 

Obama’s Drone

Attack on Your Due

Process

Guns and Killing Part 1

http://www.colsoncenter.org/the-

center/columns/call-

response/19199-guns-and-killing-

1 

 And A Little Child http://www.colsoncenter.org/

the-center/columns/worldview/19209-and-a-little-child 

Devotion of the WeekClick URL to complete story:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-08/obama-s-drone-

attack-on-your-due-process.html 

 A door is

what a dog is

 perpetually

on the wrong  side of . 

Ogden Nash 1902-1971 

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every man hath a right to punish the of-

 fender, and be executioner of the law of na-ture. John Locke

The ProblemJay Leno has a segment on his TV show

where he goes out on the street and asksquestions about government and history. Eas-

ily 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 inkeeping ourselves free from the tyranny of 

 bad government. Many people are in agree-

ment with the proposition that the United

Sates has been experiencing bad government

for several years. Our government has me-thodically been removing our basic rights ascitizens 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 beking of such a dump.

The rational understanding of success is gov-erning a free prosperous people, not the

“Societal Dump” of the apathetic, poor andenslaved. Unfortunately history tells us the

later seems to be the position of choice for the kings. Why is the natural progress of asociety entropy and degradation? Why is

change seemingly for the worst and never for 

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the better?

The proposition

Over time societies and cultures undergo

changes by electing new leaders with newideas; 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 no-

table leaders who have made poor decisionsin our recent history have been T. Roosevelt,

Wilson, F.D. Roosevelt, Nixon, Carter, Clin-ton, Bush (both), and Obama. What the poor 

decisions were is not applicable to our dis-

cussion, it is only necessary to understand

that many of the ideas that they carried for-ward 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 fail-ure to see the contempt that our Kings have

for the constitution, for our Judeo-Christianvalues, and for our guaranteed freedoms.

They misuse, we lose freedoms. The allowed

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misuse breads abuse. During the final hoursof abuse the people become desperate and de-

mands government to take ultimate control to

lessen the chaos.

Our failure is we don’t realize the nature of man and the degree of derision that our politi-

cians have for us. This contemptuous attitudeis characteristic of fallen man and thus we

suffer the consequences of their contempt.

Paradoxically our unwillingness to take re-

sponsibility for our lives makes us easy prey.We continually allow ourselves to be con-

vinced of our need for security over freedom.Our politicians with the help of the media

have induced us to believe the only way tomove 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 declinethese privileged are portrayed as “spiritual

leaders” and not as servants of the commongood. Their service is to themselves and not

to the people who elected them. But wronglywe continue to embrace them enthusiastically.

This idolatry leads to the false assumptionthat government can deliver us from the evils

of chaos. Reasonable people understandSpirituality should come from faith and not

from government leaders.

Looking in all the wrong places

Continued on page 4

When government is short on answers, itlooks 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 WorldWar 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 opti-

mism, John Dewey and outcome based educa-tion, and Sigmund Freud who promoted the

idea that self-esteem and sexual determinismhave greater value than self-achievement; you

then have a formula for a social disaster funded through bad and often corrupt govern-

ment.

Our need to be like other nations is recklessand without merit because of their failures.

The headlines offer up a plethora news arti-cles about the failure of socialism in Europe.

The results are we allow men without con-science to dictate change that we didn’t take

the time to understand. Example of this wasthe obtuse reasoning that we must pass a law

 before we can understand it. What we haveforgotten is that the strength of our nation has

 been that we have been unlike the other na-tions. We have grown strong with ideas of in-

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dividualism and entrepreneurship. Most havedone this on their own without the aid of gov-

ernment.

Kings of Chaos

If the chaos is to work the people must first be

convinced to reject the Judeo-Christian valueson which our country was founded. This in-

trusion into our relationship with God reduces

our ability to cope with the chaos. Faith based

values strengthen our character and ability tocope with life’s problems. It was those values

and principles which made us stronger as acountry resulting in the world’s leading econ-

omy, strongest military, and the freest of peo- ple.

Our recent strings of potentates have de-manded 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 , eu- phuism for Marxist speech and thought con-

trol. This whole process crept in through thegovernment controlled abuse of the educa-

tional system. Next, our Kings want to take our finest to

serve their causes. The Kings have tried to dothis through the military, but our military is

too entrenched in “esprit de corps” and hasnot yet given in to a Commander and Chief 

that wants to oppress the people. One Kingtried 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 prop-

erty. They launch punitive taxes leaving uslittle and using our money to provide mecha-

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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 historywho 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 histori-

cally 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 isn’t ready to take the throne. The ques-tion becomes do we have the fortitude to say

he can’t take our best, he can’t take our re-sources, and he can’t take our freedoms? 

Same data, different in-

terpretations?

Published: 9 February 2013 (GMT+10)

We often emphasize two important points about sci-

ence and the origins debate: (1) there is a fundamen-

 

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tal difference between the science of present proc-

esses (operational science) and the science of pastevents (historical science), and (2) historical sci-

ence 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 tocompletely different conclusions on what happened.

Today’s feedback features a skeptic who calls both

of those points into question, with a response fromCMI’s Dr Carl Wieland. 

Mat H. from the United Kingdom writes in re-

sponse to Being prepared facing the tough ques-

tions 

Most philosophers, even philosophers

of science have little if any experience

in the construction of mathematicalmodels and/or data analysis of experi-

mental or observational results. There-

fore they are unaware of the “nitty-

gritty” of science which is importantwhen trying to understand the nature of 

science and how it is performed.

[Your article stated]: “This is espe-

cially so when it comes to science of 

the past, especially origins, which isvalue-laden, interpretation-dependent

and assumption-based to an even

greater idea than‘everyday’ (operational, or experimen-

tal) science” 

This statement concerned me a great

deal. I have often heard from creation-

ists; Same data different interpretation.This couldn’t 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 bemade. It may be the case however that

the data set is of particularly poor qual-

ity or that it isn’t big enough to do de-cent 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 sci-

ence” are only used in the creationist literature, you

won’t find them in any science textbook of any

worth, so it seems that this is a rather unnatural par-

tition of science in general. I will add that science is

all about finding out how the underlying processes

that don’t change and using these processes to ex-

 plain 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 interpreta-

tion 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). You’re right that crea-tionists are the main users of terms like origins sci-

ence and operational science, but that is largely be-

cause if we used experimental and forensic science,

 people would mistakenly narrow it down to e.g. ex-

clude certain from the former observational ap-

 proaches 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 sci-

ence, etc.). Examples of disciplines utilizing this ap-

 proach: physics, chemistry, molecular biology. The

other methodology…. 

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creation.com/same-data-different-

interpretations 

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