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Silent3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 02:52 PM
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11. Your showy display of erudition appears misdirected to me.
I get the impression that CD's question about a college having to accept the Bible version of pi was directed at anyone who might think the decision was bad, who would want to see it reversed, and who would want colleges to creationism and ID as valid college prep.

That's the pretty much the opposite of the way you took his question, as if he was asking if rejecting Biblical pi would follow as a consequence of the decision standing -- something which CD or pretty much nearly anyone else could guess would be true, even without the aid of your interesting but contextually unnecessary lecture.

It's your misunderstanding that's baffling, not his.
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  - This isn't a case about religious freedom.  DeSwiss   Aug-14-08 09:26 PM   #1 
  - This is the current face of the creationist assault on science  Az   Aug-14-08 09:41 PM   #2 
  - "association supports education based on its statement of faith, which affirms biblical inerrancy"  beam me up scottie   Aug-14-08 09:51 PM   #3 
  - Exactly nothing in academia is about "quality and comparability."  Beregond2   Aug-14-08 11:51 PM   #4 
  - An interesting position, but not one supported by the evidence.  Donald Ian Rankin   Aug-15-08 01:59 PM   #9 
     - That's the problem.  Beregond2   Aug-16-08 03:13 PM   #29 
        - That's quite some chip you've got on your shoulder there...  Donald Ian Rankin   Aug-17-08 05:46 AM   #30 
  - An example of a rejected course ...  Jim__   Aug-15-08 08:30 AM   #5 
  - "That's pathetic."  igil   Aug-16-08 12:59 PM   #28 
  - Suppose a high school taught math with the biblical version of Pi?  cosmik debris   Aug-15-08 09:11 AM   #6 
     - You seem completely incapable of understanding the import of the decision  HamdenRice   Aug-15-08 09:52 AM   #7 
     - .  cosmik debris   Aug-15-08 09:56 AM   #8 
     - Your showy display of erudition appears misdirected to me.  Kerry4Kerry   Aug-15-08 02:52 PM   #11 
     - He's just trying to pick a fight  cosmik debris   Aug-15-08 02:59 PM   #12 
        - And here I thought he was busy looking for that link for Trotsky....  turtlensue   Aug-16-08 07:32 AM   #21 
        - I guess we know who your alpha male is  cosmik debris   Aug-16-08 08:18 AM   #22 
           - Be careful, that picture is dangerous - I was hypnotized by it.  beam me up scottie   Aug-16-08 08:27 AM   #23 
              - I'm immune to that.  cosmik debris   Aug-16-08 08:35 AM   #24 
                 - The internet is proof that the FSM loves us.  beam me up scottie   Aug-16-08 08:40 AM   #25 
        - Thanks for engaging in this important discussion of the "rational relationship" test  HamdenRice   Aug-16-08 09:31 AM   #26 
           - ostentatious displays of mock aggression don't make you alpha  cosmik debris   Aug-16-08 09:35 AM   #27 
     - IMO, you were baffled by a tongue in cheek question and tried to  heidler1   Aug-15-08 03:19 PM   #13 
     - He'd go play with his friends  cosmik debris   Aug-15-08 03:29 PM   #14 
     - Completely humourless, as always  moggie   Aug-15-08 04:25 PM   #15 
        - Its sad really  Az   Aug-15-08 08:50 PM   #16 
        - Yeah but, don't you just love that trick she does with her fingers?  cosmik debris   Aug-15-08 08:59 PM   #17 
           - How does it make that shadow?  Az   Aug-15-08 11:05 PM   #19 
              - You dirty boy!  cosmik debris   Aug-16-08 07:07 AM   #20 
        - He certainly isn't an it-getter, is he?  beam me up scottie   Aug-15-08 09:06 PM   #18 
     - Mmmmm.... Church pie.  DeSwiss   Aug-15-08 02:05 PM   #10 
 

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