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	<title>Comments on: God Said Pi = 3; Stand By Your Beliefs Dammit</title>
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		<title>By: your xtian mom likes my pole</title>
		<link>http://gospelofreason.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/god-said-pi-3-stand-by-your-beliefs-dammit/#comment-3738</link>
		<dc:creator>your xtian mom likes my pole</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>yes, bible thumpers can try so hard to refute this argument but they forget that this fairy tale bible is supposedly the word of "god". this means it should be perfect! so assuming god is perfect and all-intelligent then why couldn’t he simply have said that pi is exactly equal to the 4*[ integral (from 0 to 1) of the square-root of (1-x^2) dx]. I mean even though the calculus wasn’t invented by man until Newton came along, this would have been easy for "god" even without Newton to hold his hand and walk him through an infinite series expansion. 

god freaks need to either take the bible as exact and perfect or dismiss it as a cute book of literature no more relevant to reality then the story of the tooth fairy. and if they choose the first then they have to say that pi is exactly 3.0 funny story: my dad is a civil engineer but also a fundamental xtian jesus lover and always says that the bible is exact and perfect. so of course he believes in creationism/intelligent design. When I brought this up, I told him that each time he builds a building and uses his hp calculator's pi button he is being hypocritical because his bible says that pi is 3. this pissed him off. He called me like a week later after talking to his preacher on sunday and spouted some nonsense gibberish similar to what some other bible humpers above have already said such as: inside vs outside diameter and approximation nonsense etc. lmfao</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yes, bible thumpers can try so hard to refute this argument but they forget that this fairy tale bible is supposedly the word of &#8220;god&#8221;. this means it should be perfect! so assuming god is perfect and all-intelligent then why couldn’t he simply have said that pi is exactly equal to the 4*[ integral (from 0 to 1) of the square-root of (1-x^2) dx]. I mean even though the calculus wasn’t invented by man until Newton came along, this would have been easy for &#8220;god&#8221; even without Newton to hold his hand and walk him through an infinite series expansion. </p>
<p>god freaks need to either take the bible as exact and perfect or dismiss it as a cute book of literature no more relevant to reality then the story of the tooth fairy. and if they choose the first then they have to say that pi is exactly 3.0 funny story: my dad is a civil engineer but also a fundamental xtian jesus lover and always says that the bible is exact and perfect. so of course he believes in creationism/intelligent design. When I brought this up, I told him that each time he builds a building and uses his hp calculator&#8217;s pi button he is being hypocritical because his bible says that pi is 3. this pissed him off. He called me like a week later after talking to his preacher on sunday and spouted some nonsense gibberish similar to what some other bible humpers above have already said such as: inside vs outside diameter and approximation nonsense etc. lmfao</p>
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		<title>By: Scientific &#8220;Foreknowledge&#8221; from the Bible &#171; Submitted to a Candid World</title>
		<link>http://gospelofreason.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/god-said-pi-3-stand-by-your-beliefs-dammit/#comment-3708</link>
		<dc:creator>Scientific &#8220;Foreknowledge&#8221; from the Bible &#171; Submitted to a Candid World</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] out of a rhetorical molehill. When the inspired Word of God tells us in I Kings 7:23-26 that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (a.k.a., Pi) is precisely 3, instead of 3.14159&#8230;, they argue that the story is not intended to be a strictly accurate or [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] out of a rhetorical molehill. When the inspired Word of God tells us in I Kings 7:23-26 that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (a.k.a., Pi) is precisely 3, instead of 3.14159&#8230;, they argue that the story is not intended to be a strictly accurate or [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Google Magic Formula Review</title>
		<link>http://gospelofreason.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/god-said-pi-3-stand-by-your-beliefs-dammit/#comment-3690</link>
		<dc:creator>Google Magic Formula Review</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 03:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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Google Magic Formula Review...</description>
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		<title>By: meL_</title>
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		<dc:creator>meL_</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"eyes that see" -- jc
just means functional

The senses are the soul, spirit, whatever you
want to call it.

I am the rock -- God

She is the SurroundHeavenCreation.
Heaven is at hand -- jc

Welcome to Heaven.
SEE Her and you wont give a hoot about
that filthy word death.
You will still take care of yourself.
You belong Here.

The CreationGod is NOW.

The QM experts are just looking at
an inside-out universe. Knowledge mode fails.

google meL_
or holybusine$$ for more
outrageous statements from meL_
:-)

i am not xtian, atheist, or anything else.

NOW !!!!!!!!!! before i finish typing
She sings on my tv
"
Call Of The Mountain
"

Atheist are fools.. so are the xtians(holybusine$$)
and others.
Jesus was not a fool.

Dont petition Her. That cant work.
Reason can SEE THAT.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;eyes that see&#8221; &#8212; jc<br />
just means functional</p>
<p>The senses are the soul, spirit, whatever you<br />
want to call it.</p>
<p>I am the rock &#8212; God</p>
<p>She is the SurroundHeavenCreation.<br />
Heaven is at hand &#8212; jc</p>
<p>Welcome to Heaven.<br />
SEE Her and you wont give a hoot about<br />
that filthy word death.<br />
You will still take care of yourself.<br />
You belong Here.</p>
<p>The CreationGod is NOW.</p>
<p>The QM experts are just looking at<br />
an inside-out universe. Knowledge mode fails.</p>
<p>google meL_<br />
or holybusine$$ for more<br />
outrageous statements from meL_ <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>i am not xtian, atheist, or anything else.</p>
<p>NOW !!!!!!!!!! before i finish typing<br />
She sings on my tv<br />
&#8221;<br />
Call Of The Mountain<br />
&#8221;</p>
<p>Atheist are fools.. so are the xtians(holybusine$$)<br />
and others.<br />
Jesus was not a fool.</p>
<p>Dont petition Her. That cant work.<br />
Reason can SEE THAT.</p>
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		<title>By: jim whitley</title>
		<link>http://gospelofreason.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/god-said-pi-3-stand-by-your-beliefs-dammit/#comment-3673</link>
		<dc:creator>jim whitley</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 23:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OK boys I’ll say it a different way. the cookie dough is rolled out you take a water glass and cut out a cookie the diameter of the glass is 10 the circumference of the cookie is 30 how thick is the rim of the glass.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK boys I’ll say it a different way. the cookie dough is rolled out you take a water glass and cut out a cookie the diameter of the glass is 10 the circumference of the cookie is 30 how thick is the rim of the glass.</p>
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		<title>By: Athanasios</title>
		<link>http://gospelofreason.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/god-said-pi-3-stand-by-your-beliefs-dammit/#comment-3651</link>
		<dc:creator>Athanasios</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nobody can compute exact value of Pi.
And nobody can say diameter of given circle.
If I say, that circumference is 30,
it standardly means 30+/-0.5.
If I say, that diameter is 10, it means 10+/-0.5,
so, Pi=(30+/-0.5):(10+/-0.5)=3.0+/-0.2,
which is correct.
Q.E.D.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody can compute exact value of Pi.<br />
And nobody can say diameter of given circle.<br />
If I say, that circumference is 30,<br />
it standardly means 30+/-0.5.<br />
If I say, that diameter is 10, it means 10+/-0.5,<br />
so, Pi=(30+/-0.5):(10+/-0.5)=3.0+/-0.2,<br />
which is correct.<br />
Q.E.D.</p>
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		<title>By: Gnostic man</title>
		<link>http://gospelofreason.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/god-said-pi-3-stand-by-your-beliefs-dammit/#comment-3650</link>
		<dc:creator>Gnostic man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Gnostic tradition has it that that Yahweh, the god of the Old Testament, was a lesser (evil) god and that Jesus brought knowledge (or revelation) of the true higher God.  Therefore, it is understandable that the lesser (evil) Yahweh may well have go the math wrong in the Old Testament story of Kings being that he was more interested in establishing brutal laws and smiting people that didn't bow down to him.  The True God of the new testament would have gotten the pi right.  Although, it would have made the new testament quite a bit longer after all the decimal places were written out ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Gnostic tradition has it that that Yahweh, the god of the Old Testament, was a lesser (evil) god and that Jesus brought knowledge (or revelation) of the true higher God.  Therefore, it is understandable that the lesser (evil) Yahweh may well have go the math wrong in the Old Testament story of Kings being that he was more interested in establishing brutal laws and smiting people that didn&#8217;t bow down to him.  The True God of the new testament would have gotten the pi right.  Although, it would have made the new testament quite a bit longer after all the decimal places were written out <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>By: JON</title>
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		<dc:creator>JON</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>PI ARE ROUND, CORNBREAD ARE SQUARE. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PI ARE ROUND, CORNBREAD ARE SQUARE. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?</p>
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		<title>By: God</title>
		<link>http://gospelofreason.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/god-said-pi-3-stand-by-your-beliefs-dammit/#comment-3631</link>
		<dc:creator>God</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oy vey. You all have too much time on your hands and need to get girlfriends (or boyfriends, whatever your preference may be, I really don't care). 

Why can't you all just get along? Its so tiring to have people constantly fighting over Me. Get over it. Killing each other over minute differences in how or how not to worship. Give it a rest will ya? You're giving me a headache!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oy vey. You all have too much time on your hands and need to get girlfriends (or boyfriends, whatever your preference may be, I really don&#8217;t care). </p>
<p>Why can&#8217;t you all just get along? Its so tiring to have people constantly fighting over Me. Get over it. Killing each other over minute differences in how or how not to worship. Give it a rest will ya? You&#8217;re giving me a headache!</p>
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		<title>By: Aron Gladden</title>
		<link>http://gospelofreason.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/god-said-pi-3-stand-by-your-beliefs-dammit/#comment-3625</link>
		<dc:creator>Aron Gladden</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Look, its real simple as to why secularist attitudes about this scripture are fallacious.  For all of you secularists out there trying to prove this verse wrong because of some inexact mathematics, I challenge you with this in response:

Show me a PERFECT circle, or perfectly circular object.  I actually want to see one.  I say this because no such thing exists.  There is and always will be error in the reality of this world when measured by an ideal.  If you do not show me a perfect circle or circular object in this world, then according to your logic, this world must not exist!  Thats why such an argument is rediculous.  Mathematics are an ideally perfect instrument used to measure everything in this world that is imperfect.  There is nothing that stands to the ideal of mathematics.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look, its real simple as to why secularist attitudes about this scripture are fallacious.  For all of you secularists out there trying to prove this verse wrong because of some inexact mathematics, I challenge you with this in response:</p>
<p>Show me a PERFECT circle, or perfectly circular object.  I actually want to see one.  I say this because no such thing exists.  There is and always will be error in the reality of this world when measured by an ideal.  If you do not show me a perfect circle or circular object in this world, then according to your logic, this world must not exist!  Thats why such an argument is rediculous.  Mathematics are an ideally perfect instrument used to measure everything in this world that is imperfect.  There is nothing that stands to the ideal of mathematics.</p>
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