Timeline for Why aren't creationism and natural science on the same intellectual level?
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| Dec 24, 2015 at 18:40 | comment | added | hildred | @BenVoigt, the use of tenth has very little in common with modern fractions and has more to do with tithing than what we think of as math, Not that the fractions were not used, particularly in inheritance, but the language is not suited to fractions. The closest it comes is so many shares, which would be completely unsuited for expressing 22/7 and is even stresses the language to express one seventh. the closest would be to frame it in terms of inheritance, but inheritance is always unequal, and tithing is assumed to be a tenth, but not completely certain. This leaves what exactly? | |
| Dec 24, 2015 at 17:33 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | @hildred: Is that comment incomplete, or are you claiming that the list is empty? If the latter, you are deplorably misinformed: the fraction one-tenth appears in Genesis 14:20 and then dozens of times after that. There are other fractions in the Bible as well. | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 7:12 | comment | added | hildred | presented for your edification here is the complete list of fractions in the bible: | |
| Feb 8, 2015 at 22:05 | comment | added | Tim B | @Octopus Actually Pi has been known to multiple DP for thousands of years: www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/… | |
| Feb 4, 2015 at 16:59 | comment | added | Octopus | If you're building round objects with cubits I hope its a damn perfect circle, but probably its built with stones or wood or some other imperfectly shaped resource, Of all the variances I doubt you will get the perfect ratio that is pi. I'm pretty sure that's why the ancients figured 3 was close enough. Its not that it's not questioned (is it exactly 3?) it's that 3 was close enough for their purposes. Are you suggesting that creationists reject pi? | |
| Feb 4, 2015 at 15:17 | comment | added | abalter | The $\pi$ example is brilliant! | |
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| Feb 2, 2015 at 20:13 | history | answered | Mark | CC BY-SA 3.0 |