PM>The foresight of those who wrote the bible originally to add footnotes
>is incredible.
Stephen: <<Argument from personal incredility Pim?>>
Not at all. I am merely pointing out how fortuitous it was that the writers of the bible added the footnotes to explain the story.
PM>It is good to see how one has to speculate a lot about this unfortunate
pi=3 measurement.
Stephen: <<There was *no* speculation about it AFAIK by Bible believers, until
sceptics raised it as an alleged problem.>>
<g> Ain't life a ...
Stephen: <<And there is *no* "pi=3 measurement".>>
Unless you take the bible literal.
PM>Perhaps we are wrong about other 'measurements' as well ? Perhaps a
>'day is not 24 hrs' for instance?
Stephen: Nowhere does the Bible even say that the days of Genesis 1 are "24 hrs".
This is just a human interpretation.>>
Indeed.
PM>Heck all it takes are some 'footnotes' which I believe were not in the
original documents ?
Stephen: <<Of course the "footnotes" "were not in the original documents"! Surely Pim
you can't be be serious in thinking they were?>>>
Nope, they are as you said "possible fallacious interpretations/speculations of events in the bible"