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To: Buck W.
Allegory is not fairy tale; please do not degrade the argument by referring to it as such.

You really shouldn't discuss accuracy when you can't pull it off yourself. I never referred to allegory as fairy tale. I referred to allegory and to fairy tale, but did not equate them.

Actually, you are. If the bible were literally inerrant, it would have been much more precise in calculating the value of the ratio, or, more likely, would have remained silent on the matter.

Really, if the text said "the vessel was 3 and one-tenth cubits in diameter" you wouldn't be asking people "Does pi=3.1?" If it said "the vessel was 3 and three-twentieths cubits in diameter you wouldn't be asking people "Does pi=3.15?"

Sure you would. Just as surely as a cubit is a micrometer.

471 posted on 03/09/2009 8:35:27 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: Mr. Silverback

“I never referred to allegory as fairy tale.”

Yes, you did. My posts have all referred to allegory. The word “allegory” is routinely replaced by respondants by “lie” or some other equally inaccurate representation of my point—”fairy tale” in this case.

How can you adhere to the literal inerrancy of the bible if you can’t even demonstrate the “literal inerrancy” of your own posts?


472 posted on 03/09/2009 10:59:28 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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