I guess my request that people on this list not air their personal religious views fell on deaf ears.
Ah well. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of David King >Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 03:01 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:30675] Re: Stupid anti-metric poem > > >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 > >.... blah blah blah
