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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!magney
  2. From: kanga.caltech.edu!magney (Michael Agney)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
  4. Subject: Re: Biblical Inerrancy?
  5. Date: 18 Nov 1992 20:15:08 GMT
  6. Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
  7. Lines: 19
  8. Message-ID: <1ee88cINNjs@gap.caltech.edu>
  9. References: <1992Nov18.021504.13692@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>
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  11. Originator: magney@krusty
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Nov18.021504.13692@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>  
  14. dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
  15. > In article <28064@castle.ed.ac.uk> gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk (G T Clark)  
  16. writes:
  17. > >
  18. > >       The bible is patently not inerrant.Read Leviticus,chapter 18(or
  19. > >thereabouts) where it fairly clearly states that insects walk "upon all
  20. > >fours... fourfootedly upon the ground".That's quite clearly a mistake,
  21. > >no matter what stage it crept in at.
  22. > >
  23. > 
  24. > It also says that pi=3.
  25.  
  26. Where? (Just out of curiosity.)
  27. -- 
  28. | Michael Agney          | Yd - gender neutral pronoun    |
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  30. |                        | Source:  Stories by Alison     |
  31. | magney@cco.caltech.edu | Tellure, back issues of Analog |
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