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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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Subject: Re: Creationism, then more...
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Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 03:37:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  9 03:37:11 1984
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<murph gag spit toowey . . . much better>

Uncomfortable, having words shoved into my mouth.
To elucidate.

>> The reason the Bible gives pi as equal to three is that the notational
>> discoveries allowing real numbers to be expressed had not been made at
>> the time it was recorded.
>>
>> Hutch

> Haven't you just proved that you CAN'T use the Bible as the base for all
> scientific knowledge, even about creation. As it didn't know about real
> numbers, why should it be more accurate about anything else in the
> sciences? :-)
> 
>			Robert Virding  @ L M Ericsson, Stockholm

I never claimed it could be so used.  I am not a creationist, at least
not in the currently popular mode.  However, wherever the Bible presents
a record of events, it does so in the way that an involved observer would,
and not the way that a trained scientist or totally impartial observer might.
This does not invalidate it even as a source for historical records.

Hutch