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- From: gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan)
- Subject: Re: why is pi irrational
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:36:23 GMT
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- In article <pete.03vb@bignode.equinox.gen.nz> pete@bignode.equinox.gen.nz writes:
-
- >>So the Bible is accurate, just not very precise. :-)
- >
- >When it says the Earth is flat, however, it is inaccurate, rather than
- >imprecise.
-
- Where does the Bible say that the earth is flat? I do not deny that most
- of the writers of the Bible thought the earth to be flat (as did everyone
- else at the time), but did they say so in the writings that now form the
- Bible?
-
- (There are a few bits of decidedly funny cosmology in the book of Job, but
- Job is very clearly a story anyway, and I don't believe its writer ever
- actually wanted anyone to believe God had said the things put in his mouth
- there.)
-
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- Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
- gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. [Research student]
-