RE: Pi---fairly long

Andrew (cummins@dialnet.net)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:12:47 -0500

> [mailto:evolution-owner@udomo2.calvin.edu]On Behalf Of Stephen Jones
>
> While I don't believe the Bible is teaching the value of pi, the
> fact is that 3 is *not* an "incorrect, estimate of pi." It is a *correct*
> estimate of pi, to no decimal points.

Here is yet another example of non-Christians being dishonest (we've
learned from Clinton and his supporters that many Liberals, usually
Evolutionists, don't have any moral objection to dishonesty, oh well).
They say "Look, the Bible is inaccurate, it says pi is 3 when it's
really 3.141."

First, the Bible is not attempting to estimate pi.

The Bible is accurately reporting the activities of an imperfect man who
constructed an imperfect object. But, even if God himself did the
construction and the measurement, there is no indication that the object
is a pure mathematical object with no real existence. It's simply
stupid to say the Bible is wrong when there's no such thing as infinite
precision in any practical application (including recording the number
in a book, let alone measuring).