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John Ross (john@jross.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Mike Hall wrote <thehalls-2603971444330001@news.elite.net>:

: > <john@cartmell.demon.co.uk> wrote:

: > > Quite true.  Making sausage rolls the pastry needs to be three widths
: > > of sausage and a bit.  The hardest thing to teach is when an
: > > approximation is appropriate.
: > 
: > Don't I recall that the Temple of Solomon had a golden "bath" which was 10
: > cubits in diameter, and a circle of 30 cubits "encompassed it round
: > about"???  It comes as a shock to many to find that the Bible says pi is
: > equal to 3 ...

: Perhaps He created the universe more curved than we know it.  Now He's
: loosening or losing his grip.  Either way space is becoming less
: curved.  Discuss. :-)

Hey, why not?  I've always liked these theories where everything in
the universe is slowly but steadily decaying... we know space is
expanding-- maybe that extra expansion is affecting curvature; and for
that matter, how about the speed of light?  Sure, it's basically
constant, but what if over the long term that's decaying too?

(no joke: I heard one of the oxymorons known as Creation Scientists
claim once that he had proved that the speed of light was undergoing a
logarithmic decay, and that tracing the curve backwards it rises to an
asymptote at right around 4004 B. C.... a good laugh was had by all)

Anyway, hey, the Bible's not a math text; apparently 3 was a good
enough approximation for Solomon.  Or maybe it was about 10 cubits
across, give or take a cubit, and about 30 cubits around, give or take
a cubit...  It would be extensively silly to take this passage (as
some have done) to mean The Bible Says Pi = 3.000 ...



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