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[maradydd]

By way of Pharyngula, apparently the creationists are starting to abuse information theory, not just physics, in their tortured attempts to justify their doctrine.

Of course, you understand, this means war.

ETA: /me reads the comments. Oh. Apparently creationists reject Claude Shannon's work on information theory. Infidels. They shall be first against the wall when the revolution comes.

One thing that I will never understand is why creationists believe that an omniscient God is bad at math.

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[geekosaur]

You had me wondering for a moment. :) Anyway, my comment above was the formal restatement of the "it's not a math textbook" quick quote. Rounding is one of the "givens" of Tanakh interpretation (another is that any mention of "seventy" means "a lot"; it's a direct consequence of the "seven and ten" observation). The exception is when the counting follows the tradition of near-eastern formal documents, as with the censuses [noting that the Hebrew "elef" used to mean "troop", not "thousand" as usually translated]) and the records of donations to the building and dedication of the Tabernacle.

I'm guessing the snark on the skeptics-guide page set you off. I thought the source appropriate for maradydd's journal, but their snarky sidebar obnoxious, fwiw.

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edited for clarity as to whose snark, and where the referenced comment is relative to this.