This is not a forum for disproving the Bible, Scott.
The original thread was that some people use their belief in God to prove that we should use imperial units, Euric made a sensible comment that imperial comes from Babylon, and that the Bible says that we should use honest weights and measures.
Now, whether you believe the Bible or not, the fact remains that a large proportion of the US population considers itself to be Christian. This is something that cannot be overlooked.
Thus there will be in the minds of some christians an opposition to metric as they believe that God gave them the imperial system. To those people we can say, as Euric did, that the imperial system is pagan, and that God requires a system of honest weights and measures, which do not vary, and the only system in the world today that can provide such a system is the metric system. The imperial system is not accurate enough, nor consistent between countries, to be used in our modern world.
The religious argument is important when trying to convert religious people to accept metric.
For those who do not believe or read the Bible, then the above would be meaningless and a different approach would be required.
But I will add that as a Christian myself, I have never ever felt that God requires me to use the imperial system, and that He would prefer us to use a sensible and easy to use system that the whole world uses, just as the early Church used the Roman Empire to spread the Gospel. But I won't go any further into religious discussions as this is a forum about getting the USA to go metric rather than a Christian forum.
David King
Scott Hudnall wrote:
Measurement and mathematics in the Bible should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism and an few mg of salt. There are a lot of good examples found at http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/science/long.html .
Here are a few of my favorites:
68. Since the molten sea was round with a diameter of ten cubits and a circumference of thirty cubits, we know that the biblical value of p is 3. (The actual value is approximately 3.14159.) 4:2
21. Noah is
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