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- From: mccreary@sword.eng.hou.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)
- Subject: Re: Biblical Inerrancy?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.153054.3846@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com>
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- References: <1992Nov18.021504.13692@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> <1992Nov18.214752.6782@texhrc.uucp> <1eev6sINNhgv@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:30:54 GMT
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- In article <1eev6sINNhgv@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >In article <1992Nov18.214752.6782@texhrc.uucp>, someone@Texaco.com (Larry D. Pyeatt) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov18.021504.13692@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>, dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
- >>|>
- >>|> It also says that pi=3.
- >>
- >>Where does it say that? I haven't heard that one yet.
- >
- >It's where someone is building some sort of font for the temple in the Old
- >Testament. Of course, for pi=3 to follow, one has to assume that the Bible is
- >inerrant, literally true, and precise. Now, that's what a lot of creationists
- >seem to claim, but outside the lunatic fringe of the creationists, you seldom
- >see claims that the Bible is everywhere precise.
-
- I'm not familiar with that one, but there's another verse which gives
- the dimensions of a circular lake. Calculating pi from these numbers
- give you pi=3. Of course, it's meaningless to do this unless you
- consider the Bible to be 100% inerrant.
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