Scottsman Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Or the earth stopped rotating for a day. No other culture recorded that alleged significant event considering how carefully the egyptians tracked the sun. Must be an allegory then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeThinkerNZ Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 It can also be ruled out because there is no plausible mechanism for it. This is linked to one of my favourite ways to show the bible is nonsense: the fact that it describes a universe based on what the writers could observe from looking at the region around them, with no understanding of how the solar system works. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdelsolray Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Or the earth stopped rotating for a day. No other culture recorded that alleged significant event considering how carefully the egyptians tracked the sun. Must be an allegory then. Or pure fiction. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurisaz Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Even if there was a plausible mechanism for it... unless that mechanism would simultaneously influence the rotational speed of every single bit of matter on and in Earth, there'd be one hell of a "conservation of energy" party when it happened. Imagine you stop the Earth... but not the oceans and atmosphere. Ladies and gentlemen, behold now the mother of all tsunamis, along with a storm that couldn't be stronger if gawd himself farted right on our world! Even if you got it all covered but not all simultaenously... friction between pockets of matter going different speeds would create a nice amount of heat. And when I say nice I mean disastrous. Ooooh of course "gawd works in mysterious...". Well fine, then it's myth and not science. Which the babblical cretinists and such for some reason never accept. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenstar Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 On the winter solstice it appears that the sun rises at the same point for a day or two.. hence it 'stands still'. Ancient solar religious stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becks Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 On the winter solstice it appears that the sun rises at the same point for a day or two.. hence it 'stands still'. Ancient solar religious stuff. that must be the same day as Joshua's battle! Awesome, I knew there would be a reason to believe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stamps1962 Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 When I was growing up in Fundyland, I recall some preacher or Sunday School teacher claiming that scientists or maybe mathematicians had calculated that there was some 'missing time' in the calculation of the earth's orbit and this was touted as 'astounding proof' of the truth of this pile of crap story. Like all other such stuff it turned out to have been a falsehood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Oh yeah I heard that one. It was very convincing lie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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