Seems like something would throw it off, and if so, what if we get pushed toward the Sun??? We would burn up wouldn't we. And some would think that the Earth is millions of years old, so this means that it has beeb spinning for that long without getting knocked off balance???
2006-12-09 12:41:02 · 14 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Very good point you bring out here, obviously there is a reason for the order of not just our planet to keep on it's own path but also of all the other planets, stars, galaxies, moons and everything else moving like clockwork and with great balance, after last year's tsunami we were told on the news that the earth has been knocked of its axis by a half a degree or so, but it is still spinning and moving around in its path that it normally takes just like magic it moves around and in perfect order too, so how is it that a earth and all the other things in our universe can keep on doing just that day after day year after year, isn't this truly a miracle? One would think so, but it show's us that there is a mind behind all this order of these things
2006-12-09 12:51:51 · answer #1 · answered by I speak Truth 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The volume of the earth is 1,097,509,500,000,000,000,000 cubic meters...what could possibly push it? Anything large enough to do that would be caught up in the gravitational influences of the sun, unless it was even larger than the sun itself.
The earth already is off-balance, wobbling in its orbit at 23.5 degrees off its axis.
The earth does not hang, it merely floats in the vacuum of space, influenced by the gravity of the sun.
It has also been erroneously stated that the earth weighs 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms, but the earth does not actually weigh anything. For the earth to weigh that amount, it would have to exist within a field of gravity equal to that which the earth itself generates.
Weight is relative to the gravitational field in which it is measured. On earth, i weigh 110 lbs.; on the moon, i would only weight 18 lbs. How much would the earth weigh on the moon?
2006-12-09 22:36:41 · answer #2 · answered by Audrey Grace 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not in perfect balance - it's a constantly changing dynamic, a shift of forces on a massive scale.
We're not so much "orbiting" the sun as we are "constantly falling and missing". Eventually the forces that have kept us from missing will be overcome by the Sun's gravity.
Think about the coin wishing wells that they have at malls, where you roll a coin around the edge and it eventually follows a smaller and smaller orbit before falling into the hole in the middle. Now take that and draw it out for billions of years...
2006-12-09 20:45:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Amazing, isn't it?
Job 26:7 says that He (God) stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
But, then man cant understand or fathom this, so science, has to put the cotton-pickin thing on imagery axis?
Hebrew 1:1-2 says; God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Heb 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, "by whom also he made the "Worlds"
Showing, that not only us, but all the planets are doing the same thing.
2006-12-09 21:10:55 · answer #4 · answered by n_007pen 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No it has been knocked off balance. Its also been a big ball of lava. The moon for example is slowly drifting away. This causes the earth's day to be longer. I remember hearing that the day used to be only 18 hours long.
2006-12-09 20:44:40 · answer #5 · answered by Magus 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
all of the millions of billions of planets that are out there do the same thing, why is it so hard to believe that ours does so also? IT IS CALLED GRAVITY AND PEOPLE LEARN ABOUT IT IN GRADE SCHOOL. Please do some very basic reasearch before you try to ask questions to support your faith in very bad ways
People don't "think" the Earth is millions of years old, we KNOW it is millions of years old. Please read something other than the Bible, you will be surprised what you can learn
2006-12-09 20:43:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
A little-known chap called Isaac Newton explained this pretty thoroughly about three hundred years ago. You really need to read another book, my friend.
2006-12-09 20:47:09 · answer #7 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Earth is also the perfect size too. If it was slighlty smaller or slightly larger it wouldnt be able to support life. Seems too perfect to happen by chance doesnt it?
2006-12-09 20:45:00 · answer #8 · answered by Bahaus B 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nahh, this is pretty basic physics and astronomy. Though I hate linking to Wikipedia, they actually have an excellent explanation of the concept of orbits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit
2006-12-09 20:45:04 · answer #9 · answered by angk 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
it does get knocked off balance on occasion and shifts on its axis. its spin is also not perfect - it's wobbly.
the uneducated nature of bible believers is just plain sad - so sad. it makes my heart ache.
2006-12-09 20:45:03 · answer #10 · answered by Dr. Brooke 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋