Why do atheists say da Bible has da wrong value for π even though this has long been refuted & is out of date?

I stopped taking you seriously when you started using 'da' as a replacement for 'the'.

Of course it's true! It tells us it is. By this logic, there are no guilty in prison! One can not prove himself an honest man, simply by proclaiming it so. One needs proof from an outside source, which is not affiliated with the original source nor using that original source as evidence. That said, I say that the Bible is a good book, which does tell many truths through symbolism and example. I can not say it is 100% true and no other can either for there are no living witnesses. For all we know and can prove of the stories from the book, is that as in all legend there are some elements of truth, but these elements may be exaggerated over time by those with ulterior motives. I believe there is something which created this great expanse we call the universe, but can not grasp the idea of a spirit which has no beginning nor end, that created or caused the creation of this reality. All things must have a starting point. Did God create himself? If not, who did? There are too many things that do not equate truth. I'm pantheist and believe in nature as god, not an all seeing, helper who watches over us.

If by "refuted" you mean that someone has come up with a weak-*** retcon to try to explain their way out of a glaring blatant error in the Bible, then you might say it's refuted.

However, from a literal reading of the Bible (which is what fundamentalists are always claiming is the only way to read the Bible), the Bible quite literally says that pi = 3.

No amount of claiming "they meant the bottom of the bowl" can get around the fact that the Bible says pi = 3.

I read through all that and you didn't put the supposed refutation anywhere in there! I want my 5 minutes back!

> "There was a lack of space in the question section so I used da instead of the to conserve space."

Oh that is rich! A lack of space you say? How, oh how, might that have happened?

Well, a cubit (the length of the forearm from elbow to fingertips) isn't exactly an accurate measurement. It kind depends on whose forearm is being used.

As an atheist I'm far more concerned with the provenance of the bible than it's minutiae.

I hardly think the discussion of the value of pi is weighing heavily on people who have objections to the Bible...rampant superstitions and paranoid fear-mongering are a lot higher on the list.

There is little to nothing provable on any level in the Bible, sorry. If you want to know why, perhaps you should invest in a science book, and pick up a grammer book while you are at it.

I couldn't understand your question because for some reason you omitted the word "the" for "da." I don't know what that means. You also added this strange symbol that I don't know the meaning of. You have to use proper English if you want people to understand you.

7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

Because it DOES have the wrong value for Pi. The line would have been more than 31 cubits to compass it round about.

William, William, William. Why does someone who is about to engage us in a debate about mathematics set himself up for ridicule by using "da" and "U"?

As the joke says, "Pi r round, cornbread are square."