{"id":2663,"date":"2008-05-26T12:57:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T18:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2008-05-26T20:16:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T02:16:25","slug":"a-case-study-in-circular-reasoning-herman-cummings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/2008\/05\/26\/a-case-study-in-circular-reasoning-herman-cummings\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case Study in Circular Reasoning: Herman Cummings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled onto this fellow as a <a title=\"Bay of Fundie blog post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bay-of-fundie.com\/archives\/256\/creation-wiki-and-anticreation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">respondent on other blogs<\/a> or the subject in yet <a title=\"Hyphoid Logic, ridicule through quotation.\" href=\"http:\/\/vyoma108.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/looking-for-something-droolingly-insane.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">others<\/a>. <a title=\"Google Him\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22herman+cummings%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herman Cummings<\/a> is an active proponent of Biblical truth over Scientific Inquiry. Why don’t I just say “Creationism”? Because Herman argues against them, as well. He has nothing good to say about “Intelligent Design”.<\/p>\n<p>He is heir to a higher truth. He knows “The Observations of Moses” that are revealed in a book called “Moses Didn\u2019t Write About Creation!” that was written by … Herman Cummings. In every blog response I can find by him, he cites this book as the final authority. He won’t deign to respond to any direct arguments unless it is predicated by an affidavit of of having read his book.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some <a title=\"Source of the Quotes\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mercurynews.com\/aei\/2006\/02\/13\/inherit_the_win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cummings Quotes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My name is Herman Cummings. I am the foremost terrestrial authority on the book of Genesis.<\/li>\n<li>I am the only person I know or ever heard of presently on this Earth that is qualified to teach Biblical Creation. Many school districts are grappling with the doctrine of “Intelligent Design”. Unfortunately, “ID” is an inept and shallow doctrine that merely says that life on Earth is too complex to have developed by chance.<\/li>\n<li>I’ve already written the governor and members of the education committees of every state legislature. I have hope that officials will introduce legislation that will free the public schools to teach all viable theories of origins, and explanations of the ancient history of life on Earth, removing the threat of (atheist) lawsuits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why is this guy different than the folks at the Discovery Institute? Because he takes as his authoritative text, the root of all his arguments, a book that he himself wrote. At least the DI ID’ers claim to have external evidence, although they never produce any when asked. Also, Herman is a columnist for theConservativeVoice.com, home of other luminaries such as Ann Coulter.<\/p>\n<p>Another name to watch out for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled onto this fellow as a respondent on other blogs or the subject in yet others. Herman Cummings is an active proponent of Biblical truth over Scientific Inquiry. Why don’t I just say “Creationism”? Because Herman argues against them, as well. He has nothing good to say about “Intelligent Design”. He is heir to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,24,39,786,4,1594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-culture","category-education","category-history","category-ignorance","category-science","category-snake-oil","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dangerousintersection.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}