> -----Original Message----- > From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 01:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Professor's refusal to recommend creationist > students drawsinvestigation > > > William T Goodall wrote: > > > > on 31/1/03 11:40 am, Alberto Monteiro at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > > > > > >> > > >> A biology professor who refuses to write letters > > >> of recommendation for his students if they don't > > >> believe in evolution is being accused of religious > discrimination, > > >> > > > I imagine if there were a movement of mathematicians > claiming that > > > PI = 3, and if refusing to write letter of recommendation > for those > > > that believe that PI = 3 would be considered a religious > > > discrimination... > > > > Pi *is* 3 according to the bible though isn't it ? :) > > I've heard stories of various state legislatures passing > legislation to make it equal to 3. The Indiana one was > supposedly to make math homework easier for the governor's > son, as I recall. > > The only thing I could find listed as "false" on snopes.com > regarding legislation to make pi = 3 was a story circulating > on the 'net that Alabama was going to change the value of pi > to bring it in line with the Bible. > (The verse cited was I Kings 7:23. I'm not going to verify > that that's where it is right now, though.)
"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. " -j- _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
