QED, maybe someone will come it with a more specific cite, but in the description of (I believe) Solomon’s Temple, a round pool is described as having a diameter of 10 cubits and a circumference of 30 cubits. Ergo, Pi=3.
Of course, that’s if you ignore the possibility that the author was capable of rounding.
This site should explain everything. Basically, somebody wrote an amusing piece of creative fiction that claimed that Alabama was going to redefine pi to 3 and possibly teach this interpretation in schools. The humor piece got passed around enough times that many people started to believe it.
Skammer is correct about the biblical reasoning for the phony law.
I saw “The Aftermath of Abortion: One Dead, One Wounded.”
There are not enough :rolleyes: on the web to express my feelings.
Re: the OP, I don’t know why Xians think that simplistic drivel like that will change any minds. Anyone who went to high school can punch holes in that flip little ditty, and look at what a smartypants can do to it. Darwin’s Finch did a fabulous job already.
Where I come from, making specious arguments and oversimplifying complex scenarios makes you look stupid and gasp hurts your credibility! Don’t these people realize that all they’re doing is airing out their ignorance for all to point and laugh at?
It’s also amusing because the bigger fish eating the Darwin fish says ‘Truth’ on it. (At least the ones I’ve seen.)
Of course, ever since walking fish started turning up in US waters last year, the notion of ‘Truth’ gobbling up the fish with legs has become that much funnier.
Hey, all you dumb-ass creationists, the Darwin fish not only lives, but it’s visited Crofton, MD.
In any case, it shows that the author was unaware that pi existed. That is, that there exists a ratio between diameter and circumfrence that is constant for all circles. If he did, he would have only given diameter or circumfrence, giving both rounded only creates an ambiguity. Should it be 10 cubits in diameter or 30 cubits in circumfrence? They are two different circles.