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  2. From: lampard@titan.trl.OZ.AU (Greg Lampard)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
  4. Subject: Re: Biblical Inerrancy?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov18.041629.18371@trl.oz.au>
  6. Date: 18 Nov 92 04:16:29 GMT
  7. References: <GERRY.92Nov11131033@onion.cmu.edu> <28064@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov18.021504.13692@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>
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  9. Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
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  12. dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
  13.  
  14. >In article <28064@castle.ed.ac.uk> gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk (G T Clark) writes:
  15. >>
  16. >>       The bible is patently not inerrant.Read Leviticus,chapter 18(or
  17. >>thereabouts) where it fairly clearly states that insects walk "upon all
  18. >>fours... fourfootedly upon the ground".That's quite clearly a mistake,
  19. >>no matter what stage it crept in at.
  20. >>
  21.  
  22. >It also says that pi=3.
  23.  
  24. Which is true, within 10%.
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