If Earth stops moving,everything would fly off into space.So did Joshua in the Bible make the Sun stand still?

Answer 1

You're absolutely right -- if the Earth did stop moving, inertia would cause everything to fly off into space. Unfortunately, the goat herders who wrote the fairy tale didn't know that.

Answer 2

You seem to have some very fundamental misconceptions about how gravity and other basic physical properties actually behave. Your first sentence states an obvious falsehood, as gravity is a function of mass, not of spin. Moreover, if the universe were really as simplistic as you wrongly imagine it to be, wouldn't the spinning tend to throw everything off of the surface, like riders on a too-fast carousel? The spinning would only hold people to the INSIDE of the surface, if that were possible, like the carnival rides where the spinning presses one against the wall while the floor is removed. Whatever it is you intend to prove, you should really be learning some basic physics before you get on your high horse and try making points to others. The only thing worse than a fool is a fool with his mouth open -- and that's you right now, I'm afraid.

Answer 3

I don't know if the Earth stop moving everything including you will fly into space, but I should make you understand that the spirit rules the physical and that every thing is possible with God.
I will want you to stop asking, what your father did not succeed you to can not,
but I will want you to focus on Christ rather than asking question you don't have the answers to.
Believe in God
Trust God
He can do all things
Just your thought cannot help you
Thanks and remain bless

Answer 4

Actually, gravity would not stop but the centrifugal force caused by spinning would - there's no guarantee that everything would "fly off into space". However, most geologist would tell you that a major catastrophe would ensue. Without turning, the sun would shine only on part of the globe, eventually causing one side to be very hot and the other very cold as the radiant heat would not be distributed. Major problems all over the place - not good for the inhibitants.

Answer 5

Scientifically speaking, the sunlight is "nevertheless" interior the sense the earth rotates around the sunlight, no longer that the sunlight rotates around the earth. The events defined in Joshua teach that there replaced right into a concept the sunlight remained nevertheless interior the heavens. So it feels like the earth stopped rotating on its axis. suggestions boggling! yet, as others have spoke of, it wasn't Joshua who did something - it replaced into the writer of the universe who wrought the miracle. Edit: i like the way a chum places it - additionally Scythian.

Answer 6

!st Grand ma Susie God did not and could not stop the sun from moving BECAUSE IT IS NOT MOVING. At Fatima in Portugal in 1917 the pilgrims witnessed the sun plunging to earth. Miricle or mass hysteria, King Solomin 's theory is a close second. Like the guy in the belly of the whale. Whales eat plankton and tiny stuff like that. And any other fish, say like a shark, that will eat humans usually chew their meat before swollowing.

Answer 7

Your first postulation is wrong, gravity would still be in effect. You must realize that writers record things the way they appeared to them. From the writers point of view, the sun stood still in the sky. We now know the sun stands still and the earth revolves around the sun.
I read an article years ago, some scientists who were tracking meteors and asteroids and one had come so close to the earth the gravitational pull was so great at one point the earth stopped turning on its axis. According to them it was about the time the referenced event occurred.

Answer 8

Not necessarily. Joshua did not make the sun stand still. It was God that did that as Joshuas request. If God made the Earth and the universe, can't He make things stop without anything going wrong?

Answer 9

Earth is rotating at a speed of about 1100 miles per hour. If our planet suddenly stopped rotating, the atmosphere would still be in motion at that speed. The atmosphere would be moving so fast it would literally sweep the land masses clear of anything not anchored to bedrock, this would mean rocks, soil, trees, buildings, people and animals. All would be swept up into the atmosphere.

Answer 10

The bible has been altered by the Jews and contains liitle which can give guidance to Christians so i say read all 3 Books
1.Koran
2.Bible
3.Old testimonial
Then Compare all 3 and find out for yourself which gives the Most guidance
It wont take you more than a month if you read daily so try it sometimes when your free

Answer 11

Earth is believed to have formed around 4.57 billion years ago out of the solar nebula, along with the Sun and the other planets. Initially molten, the outer layer of the planet cooled when water began accumulating in the atmosphere when the planet was about half its current radius, resulting in the solid crust. The moon formed soon afterwards. Outgassing and volcanic activity produced the primordial atmosphere; condensing water vapor, augmented by ice delivered by comets, produced the oceans.[6] The highly energetic chemistry is believed to have produced a self-replicating molecule around 4 billion years ago, and half a billion years later, the last common ancestor of all life lived.[7]

The development of photosynthesis allowed the sun's energy to be harvested directly; the resultant oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere and gave rise to the ozone layer. The incorporation of smaller cells within larger ones resulted in the development of complex cells called eukaryotes.[8] Cells within colonies became increasingly specialized, resulting in true multicellular organisms. Aided by the absorption of harmful ultraviolet radiation by the ozone layer, life colonized the surface of Earth.

Over hundreds of millions of years, continents formed and broke up as the surface of Earth continually reshaped itself. The continents have migrated across the surface of the Earth, occasionally combining to form a supercontinent. Roughly 750 million years ago (mya), the earliest known supercontinent Rodinia, began to break apart. The continents later recombined to form Pannotia, 600–540 mya, then finally Pangaea, which broke apart 180 mya.[9]

Since the 1960s, it has been hypothesized that severe glacial action between 750 and 580 mya, during the Neoproterozoic, covered much of the planet in a sheet of ice. This hypothesis has been termed "Snowball Earth", and is of particular interest because it preceded the Cambrian explosion, when multicellular lifeforms began to proliferate.[10]

Since the Cambrian explosion, about 535 mya, there were five mass extinctions.[11] The last occurred 65 mya, when a meteorite collision probably triggered the extinction of the (non-avian) dinosaurs and other large reptiles, but spared small animals such as mammals, which then resembled shrews. Over the past 65 million years, mammalian life has diversified, and several mya, a small African ape gained the ability to stand upright. This enabled tool use and encouraged communication that provided the nutrition and stimulation needed for a larger brain. The development of agriculture, and then civilization, allowed humans to influence the Earth in a short timespan as no other life form had, affecting both the nature and quantity of other life forms, and the global climate.

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Shape
The Earth's shape is that of an oblate spheroid, with an average diameter of approximately 12,742 km (~ 40,000 km / π). The rotation of the Earth causes the equator to bulge out slightly so that the equatorial diameter is 43 km larger than the pole to pole diameter. The largest local deviations in the rocky surface of the Earth are Mount Everest (8,850 m above local sea level) and the Mariana Trench (10,924 m below local sea level). Hence compared to a perfect ellipsoid, the Earth has a tolerance of about one part in about 584, or 0.17%. For comparison, this is less than the 0.22% tolerance allowed in billiard balls. Due to the bulge, the feature farthest from the center of the Earth is actually Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador.

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Composition
See also: Abundance of the chemical elements#Abundance of elements on Earth
The mass of the Earth is approximately 5980 yottagrams (5.98 ×1024 kg). The most of it forms iron (35.1%), oxygen (28.2%), silicon (17.2%), magnesium (15.9%), nickel (1.6%), calcium (1.6%) and aluminium (1.5%) [12].

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Internal structure
Main article: Structure of the Earth

Earth cutaway from core to exosphere. Partially to scaleThe interior of the Earth, like that of the other terrestrial planets, is chemically divided into layers. The Earth has an outer silicate solid crust, a highly viscous mantle, a liquid outer core that is much less viscous than the mantle, and a solid inner core.

The geologic component layers of the Earth[ are at the following depths below the surface: