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(Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: Who is this w\
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(Warkworth, New Zealand\226Before I update our Journal readers about our \
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his ministry work the )Tj
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(truth is the Lord has blessed a few letters telling of our needs and the\
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(overwhelmingly favorable. Our Summit Millennium Team \(now approaching 3\
62 members\) )Tj
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(students show up this May. I personally do not have the proper vocabular\
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(sound and without debt!)Tj
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(Now to New Zealand...Summit Ministries USA, in cooperation with Masters \
Institute and )Tj
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(Maxim Institute of New Zealand, has established a new Summit program in \
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(highschool life. I personally like the name very much and this year\222s\
conference was January )Tj
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(10 through 20. It graduated 80 students most of whom were from the vario\
us universities on )Tj
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(hours north of Auckland on the north island, an island which most of you\
have never seen, )Tj
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(but take it from me\226one of the most beautiful islands in the world \(\
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(I want you to know that our Summit supporters helped get this work off t\
he ground by )Tj
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(providing for five of our regular Summit faculty \(including yours truly\
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(remarkable faculty from New Zealand and Australia. I would like to perso\
nally thank Dr. )Tj
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(Michael Bauman, Chuck Edwards, John Stonestreet and Greg Koukl for their\
willingness to )Tj
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(endure a 12 hour flight there, and I should also mention David Stubblefi\
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(And success it was! I have heard nothing but good things from all those \
involved including )Tj
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(the students who are facing the same challenges our students face on the\
ir secular humanist )Tj
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(campuses. What these students needed to hear was that Secular Humanism i\
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(to destroy their Christian faith, but it, too, is just as religious a wo\
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(Therefore, the heart of the program was to settle these students in thei\
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(worldview \(most never heard of such a thing and were openly wondering w\
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(expose them to the various worldviews vying for their hearts and minds o\
n their campuses. )Tj
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(Mind Siege and The Battle For Truth were given to each student along wit\
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(out notebook filled with faculty notes, etc. )Tj
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(While I know I will miss some key names I do want to publicly thank the \
following New )Tj
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(Zealanders for all their hard work and long hours to make Summit New Zea\
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(Compass\) a reality: Peter McNee, Mr. and Mrs. Greg Fleming, Mr. and Mrs\
. Roshan )Tj
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(Allpress, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Gordon, Mary Davidson, Amanda McGrail, David\
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(Judy Williams, Dr. Neil Broom, Shashikant Chriatian, John and Robyn Coon\
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(Cowie, Michael Duncan, Adrian and Rachel Dunwell, Paul Henderson, Jenny \
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(McMurray, Allison Mooney, Dr. Michael Reid, Alexis Stuart, Rewai Te Kahu\
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(Thompson and Trevor Yaxley.)Tj
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(Let me close this brief report by repeating the first and last verses of\
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(war...Make her praises heard afar...God defend New Zealand. May our moun\
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(Freedom\222s ramparts on the sea...Make us faithful unto Thee...God defe\
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(Guide her in the nations\222 van...Preaching love and truth to man...Wor\
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(plan...God defend New Zealand.)Tj
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(educational powers that be in New Zealand, like in America, are seeking \
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(Anthem, however, there will not be too much to sing about! But then one \
can never )Tj
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(underestimate the secular mind. You can hear their new refrain even now.\
..\224United Nations! )Tj
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(p. 7\) this same gentleman equates Mind Siege with Hitler\222s Mein Kamp\
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(Pray for Summit New Zealand. They are already making plans for next year\
and seeking the )Tj
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to merit a number of )Tj
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(\223Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?)Tj
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(\223Or who laid its cornerstone,)Tj
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(When the morning stars sang together,)Tj
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(And all the sons of God shouted for joy?)Tj
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(\223Or who shut in the sea with doors,)Tj
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(When it burst forth and issued from the womb;)Tj
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(When I made the clouds its garment,)Tj
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(When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors; )Tj
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(When I said, This far you may come, but no farther,)Tj
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(And here your proud waves must stop!)Tj
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(\223Have you commanded the morning since your days began,)Tj
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(And caused the dawn to know its place,)Tj
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(That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,)Tj
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(And the wicked be shaken out of it?)Tj
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(And stands out like a garment.)Tj
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(From the wicked their light is withheld,)Tj
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(\223Have you entered the springs of the sea?)Tj
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(Have the gates of death been revealed to you?)Tj
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(Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?)Tj
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(Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth?)Tj
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(\223Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades,)Tj
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(Or loose the belt of Orion?)Tj
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(\223Then Job answered the Lord and said:)Tj
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(\221Behold I am vile;)Tj
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(What shall I answer You?)Tj
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(I lay my hand over my mouth.)Tj
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(Once I have spoken, but I will not answer;)Tj
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(Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.\222 \224)Tj
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(\223The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he\
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(\227C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves)Tj
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(\223Another thing that annoys me is when people say \221Why did you give\
that man money? )Tj
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(He\222ll probably go and drink it.\222 My reply is \221But if I\222d kep\
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(it.\222 \224)Tj
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(\227C.S. Lewis, Letters To an American Lady)Tj
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(\223The limit of giving is to be the limit of our ability to give.\224)Tj
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(\223Charity\227giving to the poor\227is an essential part of Christian m\
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(one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule\
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(we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, \
amusements, etc., is )Tj
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(up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, w\
e are probably )Tj
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(giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper u\
s, I should say they are )Tj
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(too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do b\
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(\223Two things fill my heart with awe and never-ceasing wonders: The sta\
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(\223Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appeti\
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(\223I just wanted to thank you for everything you taught us at Summit th\
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(choosing to use your life and knowledge to help others grow in Christ.)Tj
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(\223The information I learned at Summit has given me a stronger passion \
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(desire to dig deeper into his word, and to know what is going on in the \
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(\223I am now a freshmen at the University of Oklahoma and I have already\
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(opportunities to use the information from Summit.)Tj
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(\223Thank you so much for enabling me to serve God not only with my hear\
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(my mind. Love in Christ, R.F.)Tj
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(Summit Session #5, 2003\224)Tj
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(\223Just want to let Dr. Noebel know he\222s really helping us parents t\
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(\223My son is 14 and homeschooled. He had read Mind Siege before we atte\
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(Weekend in St. Charles, MO earlier this summer. But he really enjoyed he\
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(directly. Just to give an indication of how God is using all of us as wi\
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([ing].)Tj
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(\223As part of his literature studies [my son] has been studying the Eng\
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(the response exactly as he wrote it:)Tj
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(\223 \2213. In modern society what persons or things act as Grendels?)Tj
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(\221In modern society, there are many Grendels attacking on many fronts.\
Terrorists, murderers, )Tj
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(and other such criminals attack innocent people. Drugs cause addictions \
and many health )Tj
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(problems, and yet people are selling them. Sexual promiscuity can lead t\
o STDs, which can )Tj
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(lead to death under some circumstances, or unwanted pregnancy, which c a\
n lead to the death )Tj
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(of a baby through abortion. Many Grendels are actually part of one large\
Grendel to the )Tj
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(Christian faith: Secular Humanism. That Grendel is in the schools, the g\
overnments, the )Tj
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(media, almost everywhere. That Grendel may claim to be giving people wha\
t they want, but )Tj
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(it doesn\222t care for anyone else and it has no reason to. That Grendel\
knows the target all too )Tj
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(well, and knows how to make a Christian backslide. Secular Humanism will\
one day be )Tj
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(ultimately defeated, but in the meantime, we need to save as many people\
from its clutches as )Tj
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(we can. So to speak, we need to figure out how to make the Secular Human\
ists backslide.)Tj
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(\223 \221Gosh, that took up a lot more space than those other two. Did I\
outdo myself? Did I say too )Tj
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(much? Will the paragraph I\222m currently typing be deleted?\222)Tj
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(\223Boy, what a witness to the power of the Holy Spirit touching the hea\
rt of this young man. I )Tj
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(can\222t help but be proud. But let me not be boastful but just hold thi\
s up to the Glory of our )Tj
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(Lord. I thank God for Dr. Noebel and all those at ministries like Summit\
that teach the one )Tj
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(true light and truth in this world of ours. We will win, because the vic\
tory already belongs to )Tj
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(Jesus.)Tj
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(\223Thanks once again from a grateful brother in Christ, Sincerely, J.W.\
\224)Tj
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(\223Dear Dr. Noebel, I attended your Summit Session 8 in August and enjo\
yed it immensely. )Tj
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(Since then I have begun my sophmore year at a community college here in \
Bremerton, )Tj
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(Washington, and have used what I\222ve learned and had some fun arguing \
with liberals\205very )Tj
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(rewarding, to say the least!)Tj
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(\223I want to get my undergraduate degree in international studies and a\
m applying at Texas A )Tj
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(& M University and the University of Washington, which both have it as a\
n undergraduate )Tj
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(major. I would prefer Texas A & M because it is more conservative, but w\
ant to apply to as )Tj
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(many colleges as possible. However, most colleges offer it only as a Mas\
ter\222s degree. Do you )Tj
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(know of any other schools that offer a degree in international studies f\
or undergraduates? )Tj
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(And if so, which do you recommend?)Tj
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(\223My hope is to major in international studies and afterward either pu\
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(work for the state department. I am very open to attending a public univ\
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(currently it looks like God is leading me towards a career in the public\
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(be able to completely function as a Christian in the secular world.)Tj
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(\223The lectures at Summit truly encouraged me to do my best to be a lig\
ht in the world, both at )Tj
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(church AND in my job! Since then I have been challenged to examine the b\
eliefs I have )Tj
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(mindlessly accepted over the years and solidify them. Thank you for all \
the energy you put )Tj
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(into Summit. I know it is impacting many young people, and it has defini\
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(was two of the best week of my life!)Tj
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(\223Sincerely, K.C.)Tj
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(\223P.S. It\222s funny, but your speech at graduation on \221What\222s R\
ight With America\222 really came )Tj
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(in handy during my American history class this quarter. My teacher is a \
flaming liberal and )Tj
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(spewed angry thoughts against the U.S. nearly every day, and even at one\
point said that no )Tj
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(other nation has caused as many wars and destruction as we have. And thi\
s is a history )Tj
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(teacher\205someone who should know something about the subject!! My jaw \
dropped and I )Tj
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(stared in horror, thinking, \221Wow, Dr. Noebel was right. They really d\
o hate America.\222 I )Tj
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(remembered some of the numbers and facts you gave in your speech. Needle\
ss to say, this )Tj
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(quarter has been a lot of fun. It\222s amazing the fierce argument that \
is caused when you utter a )Tj
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(mere phrase that hints of conservatism. After the training at Summit, I\222\
ve gained confidence )Tj
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(and have had a blast arguing with Socialists, Democrats, relativists, Gl\
obalization Nuts, and )Tj
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(even \221Feminazis\222! Thanks again for the time and effort.\224)Tj
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(Sumit brochures for our 2004 Adult/Educators conference and summer semin\
ars for )Tj
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(teenagers \(primarily 16 years old to 25 years old\) are ready for distr\
ibution. Write Summit )Tj
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(Ministries, PO Box 207, Manitou Springs, CO 80829 or call us at 719-685-\
9103. Or check us )Tj
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(out on the web at www.summit.org.)Tj
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(\223A leading evangelical Christian seminary is using federal funds to l\
aunch a $1 million )Tj
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(program to ease strained relations with Muslims with an interfaith code \
of ethics.)Tj
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(\223Fuller Theological Seminary\222s proposed code would ask members of \
either faith to refrain )Tj
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(from making offensive statements about the other, affirm a mutual belief\
in one God and )Tj
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(prohibit proselytizing over the two-year span of the project.)Tj
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(\223The initiative, funded by a grant from the Justice Department, inclu\
des teaching the code to )Tj
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(Muslims and Christian community leaders in the Los Angeles area and publ\
ishing a book, the )Tj
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(seminary said.)Tj
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(\223 \221We hope to lead a large portion of evangelical Christians into \
a better understanding of )Tj
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(Islam,\222 said Sherwood Lingenfelter, Fuller\222s provost and senior vi\
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(\223Last year, televangelist Jerry Falwell described the Prophet Muhamma\
d as a terrorist and the )Tj
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(Rev. Jerry Vines, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, c\
alled Islam\222s )Tj
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(founder a \221demon-possessed pedophile.\222)Tj
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(\223Some Muslim leaders who have already begun participating in the init\
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(delighted by the Fuller program.)Tj
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(\223 \221We are changing the course away from accusations and poisoning \
the well of relations to )Tj
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(what can develop into a project in the service of God,\222 said Yahia Ab\
dul-Rahman, who began )Tj
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(participating in the initiative last year when he headed the region\222s\
network of mosques, )Tj
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(known as the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California.)Tj
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(\223However, some conservative Christians opposed parts of the ethics co\
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(\223 \221For Fuller to declare that Christians and Muslims worship the s\
ame God would be a radical )Tj
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(departure, not only from the evangelical tradition but also the tenets o\
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(Christianity.\222 said John Revell, a spokesman for the Southern Baptist\
s\222 executive committee.\224)Tj
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(\227Associated Press, December 6, 2003)Tj
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(\223A Utah man with five wives is in court fighting to get his bigamy co\
nviction overturned )Tj
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(on the basis of the U.S. Supreme Court\222s June ruling that decriminali\
zed homosexual )Tj
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(relations.)Tj
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(\223The legal action by polygamist Tom Green in the Utah Supreme Court s\
eems to confirm )Tj
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(predictions of a Republican lawmaker and other conservatives who warned \
that the high )Tj
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(court\222s decision would open the door to attempts to legalize other se\
xual activities that )Tj
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(historically have been outlawed by states, such as bigamy, polygamy, pro\
stitution, adult )Tj
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(incest and even bestiality.)Tj
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(\223 \221You would have the right to bigamy; you have the right to polyg\
amy, you have the right to )Tj
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(incest; you have right to adultery. You have the right to anything,\222 \
Sen. Rick Santorum, )Tj
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(Pennsylvania Republican, predicted in April.)Tj
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(\223 \221Whether it\222s polygamy, whether it\222s adultery, whether it\222\
s sodomy, all of those things are )Tj
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(antithetical to a healthy, stable traditional family,\222 said Mr. Santo\
rum, who was criticized at )Tj
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(the time by Owen Allred, leader of Utah\222s largest polygamist sect, fo\
r characterizing plural )Tj
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(marriage as an antifamily practice.)Tj
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(\223Two months later, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas sodomy \
law and declared in )Tj
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(a 6-3 decision that the private actions of homosexuals are no business o\
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(Utah\222s Supreme Court that the Texas ruling should invalidate laws aga\
inst polygamy.)Tj
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(\223 \221It doesn\222t bother anyone [and with] no compelling state inte\
rest in what you can do in your )Tj
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(own home with consenting adults, you should be allowed to do it,\222 att\
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(the Utah court, according to the Associated Press.)Tj
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(\223In August, Green, the father of 30 children, filed an appeal of his \
2001 conviction on four )Tj
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(counts of bigamy.)Tj
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(\223He is serving a five-year sentence for that conviction and another f\
or criminal nonsupport of )Tj
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(his offspring. In addition, Green faces up to life in prison after being\
convicted of child rape )Tj
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(for having sex with one of his five wives when she was 13.)Tj
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(\223The U.S. Supreme Court\222s decision in the Texas case also has been\
cited by attorneys for )Tj
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(Rodney Holm, a former police officer in Hildale, Utah, who was convicted\
in August of )Tj
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(bigamy and unlawful sexual activity with a minor.)Tj
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(\223 \221Holm raised the issue [of the Supreme Court\222s ruling in the \
Texas case] before his trial, but )Tj
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(the trial court denied it,\222 Laura B. Dupaix, Utah\222s attorney gener\
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(interview yesterday.)Tj
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(\223On Oct. 10, Holm was sentenced to a year in jail and three years of \
probation. He is )Tj
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(appealing his conviction, which he claims is improper under the U.S. Sup\
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(on sodomy, Ms. Dupaix said.)Tj
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(\223 \221I argued that [the high court\222s opinion] was not properly be\
fore the court in the Green case, )Tj
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(because it\222s never been raised before\222 by his lawyers, she added.)Tj
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(\223Holm is a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Lat\
ter-day Saints, a )Tj
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(fringe sect whose members practice polygamy.)Tj
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(\223Green says he is not affiliated with any religion.)Tj
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(\223The official Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly k\
nown as the Mormons, )Tj
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(renounced polygamy in 1890 as part of a deal to grant Utah statehood. Mo\
rmons )Tj
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(excommunicate anyone who practices plural marriage.)Tj
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(\223There are an estimated 30,000 people who practice polygamy in the We\
stern states.\224)Tj
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(\227Joyce Price, The Washington Times, December 3, 2003 p.1)Tj
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(\223Many of America\222s colleges and universities have become the moder\
n leaders of racism )Tj
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(and intolerance. Recently, we were treated to information about racism a\
t the University of )Tj
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(Michigan, where its academic elite gave students 20 extra points toward \
admission based )Tj
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(solely on race.)Tj
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(\223The U.S. Supreme Court found this explicit racism unconstitutional b\
ut did allow )Tj
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(continuance of a more hidden form, where universities can consider race \
as \221a plus\222 in )Tj
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(admission decisions. The University of Michigan case is merely the tip o\
f the iceberg.)Tj
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(\223Jeanne McDonnell, a freshman at the college of William and Mary, tel\
ls her story in an Aug. )Tj
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(25 Washington Times editorial. She sought to enroll in a five-week semin\
ar called the )Tj
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(Summer Transition Program offered to help students develop good study ha\
bits and test-)Tj
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(taking skills. She found out that the seminar was racially segregated, a\
nd as a white young )Tj
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(lady she was denied admission\227only preferred minorities were accepted\
. Would supporters )Tj
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(of this practice be bothered if William and Mary had seminars for whites\
only, where blacks )Tj
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(and Hispanics need not apply?)Tj
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(\223What about segregated graduation ceremonies? Vanderbilt, Stanford Un\
iversity, the )Tj
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(University of California, the University of Michigan and the University \
of Pennsylvania are )Tj
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(among those that offer separate graduation ceremonies for black, Hispani\
c and Asian-)Tj
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(American students. University administrators not only condone segregated\
ceremonies but )Tj
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(racially segregated student housing, as well.)Tj
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(\223What if white students demanded whites-only graduation ceremonies an\
d whites-only )Tj
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(dorms?)Tj
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(\223In addition to racism, universities have become bastions of intolera\
nce. America\222s liberals )Tj
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(are known for their strong advocacy of free speech, including vile speec\
h and speech that )Tj
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(assaults precious symbols. Liberals are free speech advocates because it\
\222s crucial to their )Tj
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(propaganda agenda for control. But liberals have contempt for most freed\
oms, and once )Tj
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(they\222re running the show, that contempt will extend to free speech.)Tj
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(\223Through campus speech codes, free speech is under assault on some co\
llege campuses. )Tj
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(Steve Hinkle, a Cal Poly student, posted a flier announcing a lecture by\
Mason Weaver, )Tj
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(author of It\222s OK to Leave the Plantation, a book that argues that de\
pendence on government )Tj
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(programs places many blacks in circumstances analogous to slavery. The f\
lier offended some )Tj
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(black students, and Hinkle was ordered to write letters of apologies, wh\
ich he refused to do )Tj
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(and now faces disciplinary action.)Tj
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(\223Texas Tech bans \221communications \(that\) humiliate any person.\222\
Professor Alan Kors of the )Tj
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(University of Pennsylvania, concerned by so many egregious violations of\
free speech, )Tj
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(founded Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. FIRE has successf\
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(against several universities for their suppression of speech and ideas.)Tj
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(\223The academic elite has contempt for American values and wealth. I th\
ink University )Tj
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(administrators might get the message if we\222d put a halt to our genero\
sity. Maybe a good )Tj
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(donation strategy is to search a university\222s Web site or catalog. Se\
e whether it has )Tj
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(multiculturalism, diversity or equity offices and programs. If it has, i\
t\222s probably practicing )Tj
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(some form of racism. The next step is simple: Close your pocketbook.\224\
)Tj
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(\227Walter E. Williams, The [Colorado Springs] Gazette, September 4, 200\
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(\223Isaac Newton was born in 1642 and died in 1727. His fame rests upon \
only one )Tj
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(publication, Principia, which he wrote in 18 months and published at the\
age of 45\227)Tj
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(generally recognized, even now after 300 years, to be the greatest of al\
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(achievements.)Tj
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(\223While his work was not completely accepted until after his death, it\
had already propelled )Tj
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(him to such esteem that his grave in Westminster Abbey is the most promi\
nent of all men )Tj
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(with the exception of royalty and Winston Churchill. )Tj
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(\223With characteristic humility\227a trait shared with most other truly\
great scientists, Isaac )Tj
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(Newton concludes the preface of Principia, \221I heartily beg that what \
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(read with candor; and that the defects in a subject so difficult be not \
so much reprehended as )Tj
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(kindly supplied, and investigated by new endeavors of my readers.\222 Or\
\221I heartily beg that )Tj
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(what I have done here may be read with forbearance; and that my labors i\
n a subject so )Tj
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(difficult may be examined, not so much with the view to censure, as to r\
emedy their defects.\222 )Tj
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(The latter is the original translation from Newton\222s Latin into Engli\
sh by Andrew Motte in )Tj
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(1729, and the former a revision of Motte\222s translation by Florian Caj\
ori.)Tj
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(\223Upon the 200th anniversary of Isaac Newton\222s death, Albert Einste\
in in Essays in Science, )Tj
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(publisher Philosophical Library, New York, 1934, pp 28-39, summarized th\
e achievement of )Tj
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(Principia as follows:)Tj
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(\223 \221It is just two hundred years ago that Newton closed his eyes. I\
t behooves us at such a )Tj
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(moment to remember this brilliant genius, who determined the course of w\
estern thought, )Tj
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(research and practice to an extent that nobody before or since his time \
can touch. Not only )Tj
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(was he brilliant as an inventor of certain key methods, but he also had \
a unique command of )Tj
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(the empirical material available in his day, and he was marvelously inve\
ntive as regards )Tj
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(mathematical and physical methods of proof in individual cases. For all \
these reasons he )Tj
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(deserves our deepest reverence. The figure of Newton has, however, an ev\
en greater )Tj
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(importance than his genius warrants because of the fact that destiny pla\
ced him at a turning )Tj
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(point in the history of the human intellect. To see this vividly, we hav\
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(that before Newton there existed no self-contained system of physical ca\
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(capable of representing any of the deeper features of the empirical worl\
d. )Tj
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(\223 \221No doubt the great materialists of ancient Greece had insisted \
that all material events )Tj
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(should be traced back to a strictly regular series of atomic movements, \
without admitting any )Tj
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(living creature\222s will as an independent cause. And no doubt Descarte\
s had in his own way )Tj
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(taken up this quest again. But it remained a bold ambition, the problema\
tical belief in the )Tj
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(existence of a complete chain of physical causation hardly existed befor\
e Newton.)Tj
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(\223 \221Newton\222s object was to answer the question: Is there such a \
thing as a simple rule by )Tj
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(which one can calculate the movements of the heavenly bodies in our plan\
etary system )Tj
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(completely, when the state of motion of all these bodies at one moment i\
s known? Kepler\222s )Tj
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(empirical laws of planetary movement, deduced from Tycho Brahe\222s obse\
rvations, )Tj
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(confronted him, and demanded explanation. These laws gave, it is true, a\
complete answer to )Tj
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(the question of how the planets move around the sun \(the elliptical sha\
pe of the orbit, the )Tj
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(sweeping of equal areas by the radii in equal times, the relation betwee\
n the major axes and )Tj
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(the period of circulation around the sun\); but they did not satisfy the\
demand for causal )Tj
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(explanation. They are three logically independent rules, revealing no in\
ner connection with )Tj
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(each other. The third law cannot simply be transferred quantitatively to\
other central bodies )Tj
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(than the sun \(there is, e.g., no relation between the rotary period of \
a planet around the sun )Tj
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(and that of a moon around its planet\). The most important point, howeve\
r, is this: these laws )Tj
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(are concerned with the movement as a whole, and not with the question ho\
w the state of )Tj
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(motion of a system gives rise to that which immediately follows it in ti\
me; they are, as we )Tj
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(should say now, integral and not differential laws.)Tj
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(\223 \221The differential law is the only form which completely satisfie\
s the modern physicists\222 )Tj
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(demand for causality. The clear conception of the differential laws is o\
ne of Newton\222s )Tj
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(greatest intellectual achievements. It was not merely this conception th\
at was needed but also )Tj
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(a mathematical formalism, which existed in a rudimentary form but needed\
to acquire a )Tj
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(\223 \221But the importance of Newton\222s achievement was not confined \
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(workable and logically satisfactory basis for the actual science of mech\
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(the nineteenth century it formed the program of every worker in the fiel\
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(\223Isaac Newton wrote two other books. The first, Opticks, was publishe\
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(\223The latter book was the result of Newton\222s life-long fascination \
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(\223Nothing could be further from the truth, Newton spent a substantial \
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(\223In this he surely shared a conviction with Thomas Jefferson who wrot\
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(\223Albert Einstein, in Essays in Science, p 11, states, \221This firm b\
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(\223In Principia itself\227the greatest intellectual achievement in the \
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(from eternity to eternity; his presence from infinity to infinity; He go\
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(knows all things that are or can be done. He is not eternity or infinity\
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(He is not duration or space, but He endures and is present. He endures f\
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(qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In th\
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(induction.\222)Tj
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(\223It is remarkable that we memorize the names of great human intellect\
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(\223As I am writing this, 15-year-old Matthew is at his desk about ten f\
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(mechanics\227the physics that Newton invented in Principia. Last year he\
studied Newton\222s )Tj
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(\227Access to Energy, May 2003, p. 1, 2 )Tj
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(\223The brain you get as an adult is the brain you \221wire\222 as a tee\
nager, the latest research )Tj
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(\223So be careful about the patterns of thought and behavior you establi\
sh in adolescence\227)Tj
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(between the ages of 10 and 20\227Duke University biological research psy\
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(White advised.)Tj
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(\223For good or ill, your brain is deeply influenced by such patterns an\
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(\221default settings\222 for the rest of your life.)Tj
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(\223That could explain why some people emerge from their teenage years w\
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(\223 \221The experiences we have in our teen years are so very powerful,\
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(\223 \221If you become an expert in calculus in high school, chances are\
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(\223 \221If all you do is watch TV passively and you don\222t exercise y\
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(suffer the consequences of that. In your adult life, the activity of the\
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(\223By the age of 10 or 12, Mr. White said, the human brain is almost fu\
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(\223Mr. White likened the 10-year-old brain to an overgrown garden that \
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(Children launch into their teen years with \221hundreds of billions\222 \
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(\223 \221These cells talk to everybody\227and everybody talks to everybo\
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(\223Much of the confusion occurs in the frontal lobe of the brain, the p\
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(\223 \221These are all things the adolescents have trouble with,\222 Mr.\
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(\223But as the teenager begins to form habits of thought, behavior and s\
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(\223The tipping point, Mr. White said appears to be age 19. If you don\222\
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(\227The Washington Times, November 28, 2003, p. A6)Tj
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