To: P-Marlowe
When you know what you want as a result, it's not hard to come up with a mechanism. In science, we call it handwaving.
Pi is three, or four, or whatever.
To: Right Wing Professor; All
Phooey on figgerin' out what PI is supposed to be; calculate THIS!!!!
1 cross + 3 nails= 4 given.
1,964 posted on
02/24/2006 8:05:22 PM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Right Wing Professor
When you know what you want as a result, it's not hard to come up with a mechanism. In science, we call it handwaving Evolution.
1,965 posted on
02/24/2006 8:06:18 PM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Right Wing Professor
Pi is three, or four, or whatever. That is not what I was doing. I was assuming that the writer of that verse was not stupid and I was also using the measurements of the time to show that the verse is reconcilable.
If I could not justify it using a cubit a hand or a span or other biblical measurement criteria, then I suppose I would have had to admit a likely error, as the outside dimension would clearly be about 31 cubits. But the usable space, the space inside the bowl, would be roughly 30 cubits according to your own calculations, wouldn't it?
BTW, have you found that source yet?
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