David Hobby wrote: > > An interesting find! That's the first I've heard of the > Conservapedia. It's sometimes hard to tell, but my sense > is that it's not actually meant as humor? > They think they are serious - which makes it even more fun.
A masterpiece of (unintentional) humour is... http://www.conservapedia.com/Kangaroo#Origins ... but the older versions were better, because they didn't included the alternate evolutioary view. > "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it > was round all about, ... and a line of thirty cubits did compass it > round about." > Of course we _can_ be fundamentalists and yet don't accept that Pi = 3 - the 'molten sea' was elliptical, and the ratio comes from C/(2a). In the good old days I even calculated its eccentricity, using cartographic formulas. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
