Comments on: A Case Study in Circular Reasoning: Herman Cummings http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/05/26/a-case-study-in-circular-reasoning-herman-cummings/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:38:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mark Tiedemann http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/05/26/a-case-study-in-circular-reasoning-herman-cummings/#comment-30103 Mark Tiedemann Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:36:39 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2663#comment-30103 Seems to me that humility is a quality of not taking credit for more than reality allows and sharing credit with those who deserve it. Also not expecting adulation for what you do. Moses, in my opinion, displayed genuine humility. Some of the later prophets, however, just hid behind Yahweh while they took on airs in "his name." Calling one's self the foremost single authority on something exceeds the bounds of arrogance. While one may be, it's for others to point it out. But to take on such airs on a subject so indeterminately variable and rife with interpretive conjecture is kind of like bragging that you're the foremost authority on your own breathing. Seems to me that humility is a quality of not taking credit for more than reality allows and sharing credit with those who deserve it. Also not expecting adulation for what you do. Moses, in my opinion, displayed genuine humility. Some of the later prophets, however, just hid behind Yahweh while they took on airs in “his name.”

Calling one’s self the foremost single authority on something exceeds the bounds of arrogance. While one may be, it’s for others to point it out. But to take on such airs on a subject so indeterminately variable and rife with interpretive conjecture is kind of like bragging that you’re the foremost authority on your own breathing.

]]> By: Karl http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/05/26/a-case-study-in-circular-reasoning-herman-cummings/#comment-30085 Karl Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:43:21 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2663#comment-30085 If anyone had spoken with Moses about Genesis 1 you probably would have gotten the same impression, yet Moses was called the humblest person around back then. Humility is not thinking lowly or yourself. Moses on seveal occassions would have preferrred for God to take him out of the picture. That is not humility, that's thinking less of what God can actually do through you. Humility is actuaslly thinking very highly of God, His word and the proper interpretive meaning for all mankind. Those who interpret Genesis 1 as well as other Biblical passages in only the light of the context of their own pop culture are anything but humble. If anyone had spoken with Moses about Genesis 1 you probably would have gotten the same impression, yet Moses was called the humblest person around back then.

Humility is not thinking lowly or yourself. Moses on seveal occassions would have preferrred for God to take him out of the picture. That is not humility, that’s thinking less of what God can actually do through you.

Humility is actuaslly thinking very highly of God, His word and the proper interpretive meaning for all mankind.

Those who interpret Genesis 1 as well as other Biblical passages in only the light of the context of their own pop culture are anything but humble.

]]> By: Mark Tiedemann http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/05/26/a-case-study-in-circular-reasoning-herman-cummings/#comment-30040 Mark Tiedemann Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:32 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2663#comment-30040 H.C. writes---"Lastly, by God’s grace, I am the “foremost terrestrial authority” on Genesis (as opposed to sub-terrestrials). I try to separate myself from other creationists (clowns) that do not convey the correct rendition of God’s Word." No arrogance in your family, you got it all. What, may I ask, is a sub-terrestrial? H.C. writes—”Lastly, by God’s grace, I am the “foremost terrestrial authority” on Genesis (as opposed to sub-terrestrials). I try to separate myself from other creationists (clowns) that do not convey the correct rendition of God’s Word.”

No arrogance in your family, you got it all.

What, may I ask, is a sub-terrestrial?

]]> By: Herman Cummings http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/05/26/a-case-study-in-circular-reasoning-herman-cummings/#comment-30018 Herman Cummings Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:32:45 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2663#comment-30018 Please Mr. Klarmann. If you are going to write about me, get your facts straight. I have been trying to get Louisiana to teach "the Observations of Moses", which is the oposing view of evolution. But since no one there has responded, when a law suit is filed, I'm afraid that they will be left defenseless. They had their chance. Herman Cummings ephraim7@aol.com Please Mr. Klarmann. If you are going to write about me, get your facts straight. I have been trying to get Louisiana to teach “the Observations of Moses”, which is the oposing view of evolution.

But since no one there has responded, when a law suit is filed, I’m afraid that they will be left defenseless. They had their chance.

Herman Cummings
ephraim7@aol.com

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/05/26/a-case-study-in-circular-reasoning-herman-cummings/#comment-23366 Dan Klarmann Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:29:02 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2663#comment-23366 Herman Cummings is now pushing Louisiana to teach his own version of Evolution: <a href="http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/33882.html" target="_blank" title="Conservative Voice: A Letter Which Was Sent To Louisiana" rel="nofollow">http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/33882.html</a> Herman Cummings is now pushing Louisiana to teach his own version of Evolution: http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/33882.html

]]> By: Herman Cummings http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/05/26/a-case-study-in-circular-reasoning-herman-cummings/#comment-18856 Herman Cummings Wed, 28 May 2008 03:13:46 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2663#comment-18856 Hello. I read your article about me. Yes, I do not support "ID", and the false teachings of creation science, theistic evolution, and gap theories. Neither do I support the false conclusions of secular science. But first, you mis-quote me is when you say " Herman Cummings is an active proponent of Biblical truth over Scientific Inquiry. I am a proponent of accepting scientific reality, and comparing it with Biblical Truth. I say that they will be identical, if you use the correct literal interpretation of Genesis. Second, you give the impression that I revere the book I wrote as being the final authority. Not so. God's written Word is the final authority. My book conveys the correct exposition of Genesis. It even starts off with a list of biblical references, written out, so that the reader does not have to get a Bible to read them. Lastly, by God's grace, I am the "foremost terrestrial authority" on Genesis (as opposed to sub-terrestrials). I try to separate myself from other creationists (clowns) that do not convey the correct rendition of God's Word. Herman ephraim7@aol.com Hello.

I read your article about me. Yes, I do not support “ID”, and the false teachings of creation science, theistic evolution, and gap theories. Neither do I support the false conclusions of secular science.

But first, you mis-quote me is when you say ” Herman Cummings is an active proponent of Biblical truth over Scientific Inquiry. I am a proponent of accepting scientific reality, and comparing it with Biblical Truth. I say that they will be identical, if you use the correct literal interpretation of Genesis.

Second, you give the impression that I revere the book I wrote as being the final authority. Not so. God’s written Word is the final authority. My book conveys the correct exposition of Genesis. It even starts off with a list of biblical references, written out, so that the reader does not have to get a Bible to read them.

Lastly, by God’s grace, I am the “foremost terrestrial authority” on Genesis (as opposed to sub-terrestrials). I try to separate myself from other creationists (clowns) that do not convey the correct rendition of God’s Word.

Herman
ephraim7@aol.com

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