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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: GOP On Climate Change: Ignorant And Proud [View all]tclambert
(11,085 posts)27. According to the Bible, it is. 1 Kings 7:23
"Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference."
It's repeated in 2 Chronicles 4:2
"Also he made the cast metal sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits and its circumference thirty cubits."
These are usually explained as round-off error. Occasionally some ultra-literalist will insist the inerrant Bible must be taken as a mathematical reference and try to argue that math and science have it wrong.
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Scientists do not "cling". The study is not flawed because one peer critiques it.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#34
I also do not argue with the Flat Earthers, nothing personal, sir. Argument is debate with facts.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#36