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  1. Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!bony1!billg
  3. From: billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp)
  4. Subject: Re: Biblical Inerrancy?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov20.065234.29101@bony1.bony.com>
  6. Organization: LA&W RR
  7. References: <GERRY.92Nov11131033@onion.cmu.edu> <28064@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov18.021504.13692@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>
  8. Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 06:52:34 GMT
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  11. In article <1992Nov18.021504.13692@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
  12. >In article <28064@castle.ed.ac.uk> gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk (G T Clark) writes:
  13. >>
  14. >>       The bible is patently not inerrant.Read Leviticus,chapter 18(or
  15. >>thereabouts) where it fairly clearly states that insects walk "upon all
  16. >>fours... fourfootedly upon the ground".That's quite clearly a mistake,
  17. >>no matter what stage it crept in at.
  18. >
  19. >It also says that pi=3.
  20.  
  21. It is to One Significant figure.
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