I think I found someone who wants to open her eyes...
farkass419 wrote "Comparing Christianity/Creationism to an inaccurate mathematical equation is disrespectful. Everyone knows that pi equals 3.14"
2006-08-15 08:25:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh, I'm excited. There was even a county in the South that brought it to court...they wanted to change all the books in their school district to say Pi = 3. I guess they would be busy cutting a slice out of all the pies and car tires.
2006-08-15 08:28:51 · update #1
I'm beginning to wonder if I got tricked by an urban legend. Still researching.
2006-08-15 08:32:55 · update #2
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/3550/pi.htm
"The next indication of the value of pi occurs in the Bible. It is found in 1 Kings chapter 7 verse 23, where using the Authorised Version, it is written "... and he made a molten sea, ten cubits from one brim to the other : it was round about ... and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about." Thus their value of pi was approximately 3."
2006-08-15 08:36:05 · update #3
spamandham has the ref from the Bible.
2006-08-15 08:36:58 · update #4
Kings spelled out a little better:
http://answering-islam.org.uk/Religions/Numerics/pi.html
2006-08-15 08:38:41 · update #5
Snopes site says the legislation was a fake article:
http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.htm
2006-08-15 08:41:53 · update #6
It's in the OT, 1 Kings 7:23. "The sea was then cast; it was made with a circular rim, and measured ten cubits across, five in height, and thirty in circumference." The 'sea' is a great bowl of water that the priests would use for ritual ablutions, by the way. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter is 3, but this is obviously an approximation. The Bible is not meant to be a mathematical text, and they were just rounding off.
2006-08-15 08:32:55 · answer #1 · answered by Caritas 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pi is more than 3.14
Pi is 3.14159265358979323846
And what would the bible and actual factual science have to do with it?
Oh now I see that even the ancient Hebrews knew and understood math (learned it from the Greeks who'd already figured most of this out) Though I am still confused why a refernce to a measurement in a book about how they built stuff way back when (ark, Ark of Covenant, Temples all measured in the book) has anything to do with Christianity (other than they refuse to use science to their advantage)
2006-08-15 15:32:48 · answer #2 · answered by Lee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 Kings 7:23-26 implies that the circumference of a bowl is 3 times its diameter.
2006-08-15 15:33:32 · answer #3 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It gives an approximation for pi. No one can accurately measure pi, since it is an irrational number. What is defined in the Bible is merely an approximation, otherwise what was being asked would be impossible to accurately measure.
2006-08-15 15:32:17 · answer #4 · answered by mthtchr05 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is clear on the calculation of PI, much more accurate than 3.0. That is, if you are willing to read and do some homework...
2006-08-15 15:33:18 · answer #5 · answered by Paul McDonald 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's in the OT Kings or Chronicles. Searching.
2006-08-15 15:30:58 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can guarantee you there is no such link.
www.biblegateway.com
I even did a search. If it's in the Bible, the aforementioned site will have it:
Sorry. No results found for "pi equals three" in Keyword Search.
As for your last comment, where was this? Do you have a link?
The verse(s) in 1 Kings were a measurement, not necessarily an equation.
And I hold snopes in the highest regard.
2006-08-15 15:27:23 · answer #7 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 7⤋
I think this was an urban legend or a hoax. I saw that article at snopes.com where a writer was creating satire, and posed as an advocate for changing all the school books to pi=3.
2006-08-15 15:34:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
interesting
2006-08-15 15:33:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋