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From: robert@erix.UUCP (Robert Virding)
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Subject: Re: Creationism, then more...
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Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 12:32:04 EST
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To Chuck:

I never said that YOU imferred that because the bible states that Pi = 3
then Pi DOES equal 3. My comment was more in the line that it is useless and
rather stupid to use the bible as a source of *scientific* fact as you had
just shown that they were wrong.

Claiming that, because they didn't know about real rumbers their statement
about Pi is justifiable can lead to totally absurd arguments. E.g. as the
bible states nothing about relativity, or quantum mechanics or plate
tectonics, or whatever, then it is false. It also shows that using the bible
as a source of *scientifuc* truth even in cases where it does state
something is also not valid.

It was this last case which I was mainly aiming at. However I say nothing
about using the bible  in a spiritual sense, that is each persons' own
business.

			Robert Virding  @ L M Ericsson, Stockholm