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	Comments on: McCollum overruled assistant to hire Rekers as expert	</title>
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		By: Zoe Brain		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Warren - the reason they had to hire Rekers was that he was the only psychologist who held views compatible with the Florida legislation. It&#039;s not as if they had a choice. They wanted someone who&#039;d say what they wanted said. You wouldn&#039;t.



They&#039;re not interested in &quot;Truth&quot;. Remember what was said in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/cor/counseling.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Christian World View of Psychology and Counseling:&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;6. Scientific Method



We affirm that the scientific method is useful in carrying out the creation mandate of Genesis 1:28 to subdue and have dominion over creation when the investigators have Biblical presuppositions and when the Bible does not directly give us the answers we seek; &lt;strong&gt;that the use of the scientific method is entirely controlled by the presuppositions of the investigators and therefore the results are a pronouncement of faith rather than of scientific fact&lt;/strong&gt;; and that the faith nature of the results of scientific investigation is evidenced by the investigators&#039; proselytizing intent, that is, their attempt to transform man into their idea of what man should be. We deny that the scientific method can ever be applied in psychology without its being thoroughly determined by the presuppositions of the investigators.&lt;/blockquote&gt;



I&#039;m actually heartened that so many &quot;politically sound&quot; psychologists don&#039;t have truck with this philosophy. I apologise, but I&#039;m surprised, frankly. I wonder how many other NARTH &quot;scientific advisors&quot; they considered? I&#039;m sure Cameron would have been able to make up something that would be more to their liking, but perhaps they saw Rekers as being less tarnished.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Warren &#8211; the reason they had to hire Rekers was that he was the only psychologist who held views compatible with the Florida legislation. It&#8217;s not as if they had a choice. They wanted someone who&#8217;d say what they wanted said. You wouldn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re not interested in &#8220;Truth&#8221;. Remember what was said in <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ca4/cor/counseling.html" rel="nofollow">The Christian World View of Psychology and Counseling:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>6. Scientific Method</p>
<p>We affirm that the scientific method is useful in carrying out the creation mandate of Genesis 1:28 to subdue and have dominion over creation when the investigators have Biblical presuppositions and when the Bible does not directly give us the answers we seek; <strong>that the use of the scientific method is entirely controlled by the presuppositions of the investigators and therefore the results are a pronouncement of faith rather than of scientific fact</strong>; and that the faith nature of the results of scientific investigation is evidenced by the investigators&#8217; proselytizing intent, that is, their attempt to transform man into their idea of what man should be. We deny that the scientific method can ever be applied in psychology without its being thoroughly determined by the presuppositions of the investigators.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m actually heartened that so many &#8220;politically sound&#8221; psychologists don&#8217;t have truck with this philosophy. I apologise, but I&#8217;m surprised, frankly. I wonder how many other NARTH &#8220;scientific advisors&#8221; they considered? I&#8217;m sure Cameron would have been able to make up something that would be more to their liking, but perhaps they saw Rekers as being less tarnished.</p>
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		By: Lynn David		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As I read that article last night I got to wondering who those 30 were and what their opinions concerning the case.   Two down....]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I read that article last night I got to wondering who those 30 were and what their opinions concerning the case.   Two down&#8230;.</p>
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