WrongPlanet.net an anti-christian site?

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I needed no-one to tell me that the Biblical value for Pi - as derived from 1 Kings 7:23 - is wrong.

30 cubits around, and 10 cubits across ... Circumference equals the diameter times Pi ... 30 divided by 10 is 3 ... the value of Pi is closer to 22 divided by 7 ... even closer to 355 divided by 113 ... none are close to the value that my calculator says.

Bible: 3 (This is about 4.5% too low)

22/7 = 3.1428571428571428571428571428571 (This is about 0.04% too high)

355/113 = 3.1415929203539823008849557522124 (This is about 0.0000085% too high)

Calculator 'Pi' button: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 (This is as close to the actual value of Pi as anyone ever needs to get)

Okay, so all of these values for Pi are "Wrong", since there is no way to represent the actual value with rational values. However, if the Bible is supposed to be the complete and inerrent word of a perfect god, then why is the Biblical value for Pi not even close to a workable value? Why did the writers of the Bible leave it up to Archimedes to compute Pi to two decimal places using inscribed and cirumscribed polygons (c. 260 BCE)? The book of 1st Kings was written sometime between 930 BCE and 430 BCE.

That's another thing ... if the Bbile is so historically accurate, then why is there no universally agreed-upon dates for the vast majority of the events in it?

LKL, if someone is trying to justify some position as "proved" because of something in the Bible (usually I find this happening with anti-abortionists and those who hate gay people), then feel free to deride them. However, it works even better if you point out passages that either a) oppose their points (for instance, some claim to find justification for believing life beings at conception in the Bible; simply point them to Genesis 2:7, where the first man did not come to life until God "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life"; thus, the Biblical position should be that life begins when the baby takes the first breath of air), or b) are in the same section, and being ignored by that same Christian (for instance, Leviticus 18:22 says gay sex is bad; Lev. 19:18 also says you can't take vengeance against anyone or hold a grudge of any sort, and Lev. 19 forbids crossbreeding cattle and wearing cotton/poly blend clothing ["a garment... of two kinds of material mixed together"]).

the internet is anti-Christian

Food for thought plus it might literary shut the atheists up:

I mean, it isn't as if your belief you love your husband contradicts a set of other ideas people honestly have about the world.

Not really, no. It's from the book of Mormon. The book of Mormon is known to be historically less accurate than the Bible.... and the Bible is already doubted on grounds of accuracy. In any case, the claims about Korihor do not really speak to most atheists.

In any case, long-story short, the internet is anti-Christian, and I would tend to think a few academic disciplines could be considered so as well, partly depending on how we define "Christian".

You assuming all of the Internet it, so have you hear of the Bloggernacle then? I guess not

... I'm not a believer but I don't see something so seriously wrong with this, and that can be simply objected by saying that the Bible is not a math or a geometry book.

The point I have tried to make is that the Bible is neither historically nor mathematically accurate. It is a collection of largely apocryphal stories, passed down from slaves and nomads who were more concerned with justifying their murderous ways and their subjugation of women than with being accurate, or with even providing examples of proper "Christian" behavior.

You assuming all of the Internet it, so have you hear of the Bloggernacle then? I guess not

I think it could, for instance, what that "love" actually is, is the idea of unconditional love false and an illusion? is love always selfish, etc? but we would be getting into another issue.

Well, no, what I am simply pointing out is that atheism tends to be very popular on the internet, to the point where often criticism of Christianity tends to be everywhere.

The Internet is the forbidden fruit of knowledge.

It is impossible for a man to be saved in ignorance.

The point I have tried to make is that the Bible is neither historically nor mathematically accurate.

It is a collection of largely apocryphal stories, passed down from slaves and nomads who were more concerned with justifying their murderous ways and their subjugation of women than with being accurate, or with even providing examples of proper "Christian" behavior.

Have you read it or are you basing your option on second hand information?