[ RadSafe ] Climate Change, physics and intelligent design --- OFF TOPIC

[J. Marshall Reber]

On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:58 AM, od at tlmq.com wrote:

>  A problem I have been told about recently: the description of the altar in Solomon's Temple (in Kings A', 7:23) states that it is round, 5 cubits in diameter and thirty in perimeter. Ergo, pi (د€)  = 3. Now, this might have been due to a miracle, but I doubt that that was the intention of the "being" when it dictated this particular passage.
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The Hebrew, qomah, which you have translated as "diameter" is generally translated as "height", thus nullifying your analysis.

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