Bible Math...and Ultrarunning

Thanks once again to the ever-interesting Boing Boing--a wonderfully cool and geeky site, which you MUST check out a couple times a week--a great cartoon about the pitfalls of using the Bible as a literal science text:

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Faith and science need not be incompatible, you just have to be sensible about the domains and scope of each.

 

I really ought to check out Biblical distances to see whether I can gain any advantage in Ultrarunning...say, only covering 28 miles and calling it a 50K.