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Subject:	Re: The Brick Testament - More Teachings of Jesus
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:01:41 GMT
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The naiveté and arrogance is staggering. Next we’ll here that mathematicans and statiticians are hard at work resolving the problem of Pi. Suddenly, expaining the irrational rationally will be a piece of cake (and it will be simple to boot)

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JOHN

Bad example ;)

It is very easy to explain pi in numerous simple and rational ways.

eg.

pi=4(1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 etc.) pi=( 16((1/5) - 1/3(1/5)^3 + 1/5(1/5)^5 - 1/7(1/5)^5 + ...) - 4((1/239) - 1/3(1/239)^3 + 1/5(239)^5 - 1/7(1/239)^7 + ...) )

Tim

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		Re: The Brick Testament - More Teachings of Jesus
(...) I like this part: First, most of the traditional arguments for God's existence, from Aquinas on, are easily demolished. Several of them, such as the First Cause argument, work by setting up an infinite regress which God is wheeled out to (...) (18 years ago, 25-Oct-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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