There are odd mathematical relationships between the size of the Moon, Earth and Sun. The orbital characteristics of the Moon and Earth are unlikely to exist by chance alone. For example, the Earth revolves 366 times in one orbit of the Sun and the Earth is 366% larger than the Moon. Conversely, the Moon takes 27.32 days to orbit the Earth and is 27.32% of the Earth’s size. There is no possible relationship between the relative size of the Earth and the Moon and their orbital characteristics, yet the numbers are the same. And that was just the first of many such patterns,” said Knight. “The number 366 was the basis of the ancient measuring system we have reconstructed, and that number keeps popping up along with a small group of round numbers such as 400 and 10,000. For example, the Moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than the Sun and exactly 400 times smaller than the Sun. And in 366 orbits of the Moon, the Earth experiences 10,000 days. Is this just a coincidence, or what?
2006-10-12 06:58:54 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why are you quoting from http://www.afajournal.org/2005/october/1005tim.asp?
You should read Carl Sagan if you want to quote intelligent concepts.
2006-10-12 07:03:34 · answer #1 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Your numbers are off.
The earth revolves ~365.25 times for every orbit around the sun.
The earth's circumference is 24900 miles
The moon's circumference is 2161 miles.
Therefore the earth is 1052% larger than the moon and the moon is 8.68% of the size of the earth.
The sun has a circumference of about 2,733,000 miles.
2161 * 400 = 864,400 <> 2.733 x 10^6 therefore the moon is nowhere near 400 times smaller than the sun.
So we are left with the moon being 1/400th (approximately) the distance to the earth as the earth is from the sun. Big deal.
We're also left with the moon's orbit time in earth days multiplied by earth's days per year adding up to slightly less than 10,000 (27.32 * 365.25 = 9979). Big deal.
So your incorrect numbers notwithstanding, what does this question have to do with evolution even in the slightest? Doesn't this question belong in an astronomy section?
2006-10-12 07:28:25 · answer #2 · answered by 006 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not gonna do the math but seems to me that these could actually be related to the laws of physics that we already know, and it would be reasonable that man knowing the length of a year would incorporate that number into the measuring of other things, so perhaps it is due to simple relationships and is not some big mys try. Here is a real mystery. Why does man occupy his mind and conversation with irrelevant things like this when there are known problems with in his own self and environment that could be fixed with existing knowledge and scripture.
And then there is that all important mystery "where do all those sox go. Is there a big pile somewhere or what. Until we solve this simple problem why would we move on to the unanswerable ones which will not likely cut down on the amount of energy you put out to obtain anything including a pair of sox.
2006-10-12 07:11:15 · answer #3 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The earth revolves 366 times (so thats 366 "days") in one orbit around the sun (so thats one year). Now, take a look at that statement, and look at a calendar, and ask yourself why there are only 365 days on a calendar, and 364 days only once every four years.....
Now, can you see that the math is made up and doesnt fit?
there is only 23 hours and 56 minutes in one full revolution of the earth. Hence the reason why we have a leap year. For the record, the moon is 27.23% (not 32) the size of earth....(3474 km /12756.3 km = 27.23)
Back to the drawing board.....
2006-10-12 07:04:29 · answer #4 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Did you know the moon used to be closer? Did you know it's actually moving away from the Earth at the rate of about 8 inches a year??
Did you also know that early on in our Earths history, the year was actually LESS than 365 days?
(these are things you will never find on a theist-sponsored website...)
What does that information do to your question?
As for the orbital characteristics being unlikely to exist by chance alone....erm, I take it you know absolutely NOTHING with regards to astrophysics then?
All the best in your education.
:)
2006-10-12 07:08:07 · answer #5 · answered by googlywotsit 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Your numbers, once you pick them carefully work out almost correcty.
Using the siderial period (the synodic period doesn't yield and interesting number, you almost get 10,000 (9999.728).
When you choose 366 (one off from 365, the basis of the Babylonian calendar and Enoch age), you were almost 100 times off the ratio of 3.6617235 (polar) or 3.6696030 (equitorial).
Although the reciprocal of 3.66 is
0.2732240 (rounded) it does not match the ratio very closely
0.2730954 (polar)
0.2725090 (equitorial)
27.321661 the orbital period is a little closer.
If you pick the right numbers and ignore the others, you don't need too big a hammer to make them fit.
2006-10-12 09:17:52 · answer #6 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
as usual you should read scientific work then you would KNOW :
The Moon has a diameter of 3476 km. The Earth's is 3.7 times as great. The Moon has a surface area of 152 million square kilometers. That of the Earth is 13.5 times larger. The Moon has a volume of 176 thousand million cubic kilometers. The Earth's is 49.4 times as large. The Moon has a mass of 7.36e22 kg. The Earth's is 81.2 times as great.
2006-10-12 07:11:28 · answer #7 · answered by vitriol for the masses 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are numeric relationships among all things, if you want to look for them. Remember the plane that crashed into a building in New York yesterday? Well, some people claimed at the beginning it was a new attack, and they based their assumption in the fact that yesterday was the 11th., just as September 11th, when the attacks took place in the Twin Towers, or March 11th, as the attacks in Madrid.
So you see, numbers may be used to justify about anything. But we know now that that was just coincidence.
2006-10-12 07:03:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Some of your numbers aren't even right, so no, not a coincidence.
Average orbital period of Earth: 365.25 days.
Moon's Diameter: 3,474.8 km. Earth's Equitorial Diameter: 12,756 km. Ratio: 3.67100 : 1. So close there.
By size, I'm going to assume volume as appropriate for spheres. The volume of a sphere 3474.8km in diameter (1737.4km in radius) is 21967875613.28787 km^3. The volume of a sphere 12756km in diameter (6378km in radius) is 1086781292542.88928 km^3. Ratio: 49.47139.
366 was not the basis of a SINGE ancient culture's math. Sumeria used a Base 60 system. 366 doesn't figure into it, 360 does.
Average Earth-Moon distance: 385000 km. Average Earth-Sun distance, 149500000 km. Ratio: 388.31168 : 1.
Sun's diameter: 1,390,000 km. Moon's diameter: 3474.8. Size difference of diameters: 400.02302, so close there.
2006-10-12 07:02:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 1⤋
Numbers are a human construct. You are using the Base 10 numbering system which is arbitrary (because we have 10 fingers probably). What if you used base 8 or base 12?
2006-10-12 07:05:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Well more intelligent sounding but still filled with inaccuracies. Even if your data was remotely true, what would that have to do with atheism or evolution?
If mathematics is the language of God, there are some mysteries that are true that are even more intriguing than those you purport to be true.
2006-10-12 08:49:50 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋