The Bible Got the Value of Pi Wrong - Neil deGrasse Tyson 

A cubit was an approximate dimension. Historically the distance from the elbow to the middle finger tip. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

Get given a book on how to save your soul and can't get over the fact that they didn't measure a circle to one decimal place

You don’t read the Bible to get good at math

Or the around measurement was inside and diameter was to the outside of a border.

You said they didn't use fractions.. so they were right.

Or it’s not a perfectly circular pond 🙄

30 cubits around in the center, and 10 cubits across would mean that the pot is a few centimeters thick lol...Tyson eats his foot once again.

Third, we should consider 1 Kings 7:26, which states that this cylindrical vessel “was a handbreadth thick.” Since the diameter is given from “brim to brim” (verse 23), the 10 cubits is referring to the outer diameter (which includes the handbreadth thickness of the rim). However, the circumference may well refer to the inner circle (as this is more representative of the pool of water inside the cylinder), which excludes the handbreadth. So, even if we take the outer diameter to be exactly 10 cubits, the inner diameter would be smaller. A handbreadth is roughly 1/4 of a cubit; so, the inner diameter would be 10 cubits - (0.25 x 2) cubits = 9.50 cubits. This means the inner circumference would be 29.845. . . cubits, which rounds up to 30 cubits (not 31 cubits)

Neil likes to say two basketballs can fit side by side through a hoop and that a hoop is four times the area. A basketball is 9.5 inches in diameter and a hoop is 18 inches. Area is a little less than 3.6 times. So Neil wants to make a big deal out of the Bible rounding 3.14 to 3? The bloated bloviator remains oblivious to his own flubs.

If you accept 31 as close enough, then you would have to accept 10 as a close approximation of 9.549, so they didn't get it wrong. (Of course, both values are approximations, as any intelligent person would know.)

InsightMolten Sea (Copper Sea) MOLTEN SEA (COPPER SEA) When the temple was constructed during Solomon’s reign, a “molten [that is, cast or poured] sea” replaced the portable basin of copper used with the earlier tabernacle. (Ex 30:17-21; 1Ki 7:23, 40, 44) Built by Hiram, a Hebrew-Phoenician, it was evidently called a “sea” because of the large quantity of water it could contain. This vessel, also of copper, was “ten cubits [4.5 m; 14.6 ft] from its one brim to its other brim, circular all around; and its height was five cubits [c. 2.2 m; 7.3 ft], and it took a line of thirty cubits [13.4 m; 44 ft] to circle all around it.”​-1Ki 7:23. Circumference. The circumference of 30 cubits is evidently a round figure, for more precisely it would be 31.4 cubits. In this regard, Christopher Wordsworth quotes a certain Rennie as making this interesting observation: “Up to the time of Archimedes [third century B.C.E.], the circumference of a circle was always measured in straight lines by the radius; and Hiram would naturally describe the sea as thirty cubits round, measuring it, as was then invariably the practice, by its radius, or semi-diameter, of five cubits, which being applied six times round the perimeter, or ‘brim,’ would give the thirty cubits stated. There was evidently no intention in the passage but to give the dimensions of the Sea, in the usual language that every one would understand, measuring the circumference in the way in which all skilled workers, like Hiram, did measure circles at that time. He, of course, must however have known perfectly well, that as the polygonal hexagon thus inscribed by the radius was thirty cubits, the actual curved circumference would be somewhat more.” (Notes on the King James Version, London, 1887) Thus, it appears that the ratio of three to one (that is, the circumference being three times the diameter) was a customary way of stating matters, intended to be understood as only approximate.

being round on all sides describes an ellipse too...

the bible is not a fkn math textbook🤦🏼

problem with ancient ppl not having understanding of advanced sursd and it is possible that they just estimatted

Says, "They got it wrong." Also says, "Decimals weren't a thing back then." You can't get pi accurate without decimals which weren't a thing. So,... they got as close as they could with what they had. Tyson is so arrogant that he doesn't even realize when he debunks his own debunking.

It is not "One Kings 7", it is "First Kings 7" and just like a "foot" (12 inches) was derived from the length of the kings foot, a cubit was far more of an estimation. Although the cubit was regarded as a standard measure, its length varies in different sources-ranging from 17½ to 25 inches. If we go to The Amplified Bible, we find that its translators used the 18-inch measurement for the cubit, as we see in these verses describing the dimensions of Noah's ark. OK, I have to say it. If you want to know the value of PIE, just weigh that man.haha

What a plant pot

So that invalidates the entire Bible and the Christian faith is untrue?

When your ego goes To try to discridite God !!

So the Bible didnt get it wrong. They correctly described it. Neal imagined they messed up pie becouse he is kinda a jackass who ignored they where not talking about pie. At all.

Whoa!!! His math is wrong and hes a damn scientist! BUT, hes going after a flipping scribe? He should have said 31.4 cubits if he wants to be mister math.

Maybe it was like a four-leaf clover that's round on all sides

Flesh is flesh and spirit is of spirit

PI is not an equation, it cant be solved, there is no definitive answer, so its crap. !!!

God was wrong?!?

I got news for you... the bible got a few things wrong.