Secular Elation

I'm not an expert on the Bible or Christianity, but isn't there a story in the Bible in which the earth stood still for one day?

If this is so, isn't this damaging enough to this religion? There is no doubt that it is impossible for the earth to simply freeze it's orbit for a day. Does this mean other planets froze as well? If the earth stood still, how could the inhabitants of the planet known how much time passed (after all, a 24-hour day is the result of the earth's orbit around the sun)?

Let me guess, apologists. That story is simply a poetic representation?

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That doesn't stop some xians from trying to make science confirm the bible.

See <a href="http://www.snopes.com/religion/lostday.htm" target="_blank">Snopes</a>

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Secular Elation

From the website,

They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries and it came to a halt.

1)How do they know their equipment is erroneous?
2)How do they know there wasn't a miscalculation in the procedure?
3)If the website is valid, how can they determine that it truly verifies the specific Biblical claim?
4)What if they are misinterpreting it? Why does it have to be a "missing day?"
5)The computer simply displayed a red error message. Why does this mean that there is a missing day?

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spin

It obviously happened before Newton, or else everything that wasn't attached real well would have been thrown off the face of the earth.

Grumpy

SE... you realize that there was no computer that discovered the "lost day" discrepancy. It didn't happen. It's a made up story.

You've nicely pointed out some plot-holes in the story -- as long as you remember: It's a hoax.

Oddly enough, I just linked to the same page in a different thread. <img src="graemlins/notworthy.gif" border="0" alt="[Not Worthy]" />

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Read a bit more carefully, SE and Spin. The site I posted was a Debunking of the missing day Urban Legend. There was no missing day.

-Great questions though, and the site raises those in its debunking of the myth-

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Secular Elation

I realize it was a hoax. However, I was still interested in pointing out the loop holes.

Secular Elation

Oh. I only read the top couple of paragraphs, I didn't read any of the subsequent debunking.

spin

Stop making baseless assumptions, Jon Up North. I was referring to the original story from Joshua, which was the basis of what SE was talking about.

You know, the sun stood still, meaning the earth really was what stood still and whoosh.

But then the cosmology of ancient times didn't hold to Copernicus. The earth was generally the fixed point and the sun did move across the sky, so Joshua's god simply stopped its progress. Nothing wrong there, I suppose, according to that cosmology. Things were simpler then.

Aquila ka Hecate

Originally posted by spin:
Why?