2007-01-20 03:42:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
2007-01-20 03:42:17 · update #1
ya...b/c at night it's like the night sun
2007-01-20 03:46:13 · answer #1 · answered by lize 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Moonlight:
The Moon shines only by reflected light. The albedo of the Moon is 0.07, which means it reflects only 7% of the light falling on it, (The albedo of the Earth is 0.39).
The Moon is at magnitude -12.7. The faintest stars seen by our eyes are magnitude 6, the brightest star is -1.58. The Moon is 33,000 times brighter than Sirius. It is also 14 magnitudes dimmer than the Sun, ie sends out approximately 400,000 times less light to us.
Our eyes adapt to light changes whereas cameras don't. Therefore as the sky gets dark it appears that the Moon is dazzling. In fact, it is only a dull grey colour. If we could surround the sky with full moons then the sky would still be only 1/4 as bright as one Sun in the sky even though the sky would be filled with 105,000 full moons. A full moon is 465,000 times fainter than a sunny day. The only reason why we are able to see features outside by moonlight is that the eye is amazingly adaptable. A sheet of white paper by moonlight is 2,000 times darker than black velvet in sunlight. Yet some people are able to read a book by moon light.
The surface brightness of the Moon is not uniform and hence a quarter phase Moon is not half as bright as a Full Moon. The Moon is a sphere, so more light is reflected back when the Moon's face is directly towards us. The Moon is brighter in the middle and greyer towards the terminators. The Moon's surface is covered with valleys and mountains that don't reflect much light back. A first quarter Moon is therefore about 1/10 the brightness of a Full Moon. Approximately 2.4 days before Full Moon results in a brightness that is half of a Full Moon.
2007-01-22 16:34:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep
Gen 1-2 is in the style of Hebrew poetry - not prose like Gen 3 onwards (I have to study it for my postgrad in theology at Oxford) - the nations around the Isrealites were worshipping nature and saying they were a heirarchy of gods so the point of Gen 1-2 is saying Yahweh made all those "gods"
I apprieciate that there are a lot of anti- intellectual christians out there (esp within my tradition - evangelicals) but if you take the Bible in the genre it was written in you don't have to throw out your brain to believe it.
They didn't need to know that the moon is just a reflection of the sun - that's sort of missing the point.
2007-01-20 11:53:36 · answer #3 · answered by Grace 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well, yeah the moon is the lesser light for the night.. the stars I suppose he thought that maybe we would enjoy looking at them since they are beautiful.. the sun is to rule the day, and the moon is to rule the night.
2007-01-20 11:57:05 · answer #4 · answered by tweetybird37406 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does the moon give light to the earth at night?
Yes, light reflected from the sun.
So, yes, the moon is a "light"....
I think you can probably do better than this....
2007-01-20 11:57:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The moon reflects light and bounces it to earth.
2007-01-20 11:47:30 · answer #6 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the sun emits light, the moon reflects light
2007-01-20 13:01:36 · answer #7 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋