2007-04-08 01:23:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
DON'T GIVE ME CHURCH MUMBO-JUMBO; IF YOU CAN'T ANSWER, DON'T BOTHER.
2007-04-08 01:23:57 · update #1
Nobody could stop the sun from heating the earth. Its hot temperature is by nature when God created it.
jtm
2007-04-08 01:33:15 · answer #1 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's an urban legend that's been circulating for a long time.
Here's what Snopes.com has to say about it:
Although the notion of a "lost day" in time has been circulating for well over a century, the version that has been bedevilling NASA since the 1960s — achieved pre-eminence through the tireless efforts of Mr. Harold Hill, who was indeed both a real person and the President of the Curtis Engine Company. However, he had no real connection to NASA, he was not a "consultant in the space program," and he did not witness the events described. Mr. Hill heard a "lost day" legend that had been circulating for many years, embellished it with some details about NASA scientists, and delighted in repeating it when speaking before school groups. His version of the legend made its way into various church bulletins and was eventually picked up and spread by the mainstream media as well, and he devoted a whole chapter to it in his 1974 book, How to Live Like a King’s Kid. (This book lent additional credibility to his tenuous NASA connections — and thus to the legend itself -- when he stated that he "was involved [in the space program] from the start, through contractual arrangements with my company." His "involvement" was merely that the Curtis Engine Company had a contract with NASA to service electrical generators.) Even Hill's admission that he hadn't actually witnessed the events he described clearly wasn't intended to dissuade anyone from believing in the literal truthfulness of his story: "[M]y inability to furnish documentation of the 'Missing day' incident in no way detracts from its authenticity."
2007-04-08 08:33:51 · answer #2 · answered by Kallan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first answer to your question, is where the church people claim scientific evidence that Joshua stopped the sun for a day.
Their idiocy just keeps getting better and better.
2007-04-08 09:15:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
...The "finite" mind of the astronomer is powerlessness to do anything other then "look"...He will remain inconvenienced no matter what I offer as proof... The mumbo-jumbo (as you call it) still after these "thousands" of years remains unchanged.
Could Moses have walked on dry ground after a "sea" was parted...? Could a young Hebrew Carpenter change water into wine...? Gods Word is so clear... "the things of the Spirit are utter foolishness to the non-believer"...He says, His ways are not our ways... His thoughts are higher then our thoughts...and thru "faith" we believe... Faith..."the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen"
(like air...I can't see it but it's there... if you think not...try breathing with you head under the water.) God, you might not see Him... but He's there... just like the air...
2007-04-08 08:45:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Joshua did not stop the sun.
The sun does not move.
Therefore, it does not need to stop.
So, there are no astronomers that believe the sun stopped, nor should there be any bible students.
2007-04-08 08:34:40 · answer #5 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would it be a problem for the creator of the universe to stop time for half a day?
2007-04-08 08:33:10 · answer #6 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Science has already proved that a day is missing in the date calculations because of the insident you mentioned and anotherr insident where the globe is turned 23 degree backwards,
Believe it or not that is the truth.
2007-04-08 08:29:17 · answer #7 · answered by ponder of God's Desire 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
No. Where do people get crap like that first answer? I must have missed that paper in "Science" or "Nature."
2007-04-08 08:32:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋