Why does the earth rotate?

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I knew the earth orbits in an oval path but I was shocked to learn the earth is closer to the sun in the winter and further from the sun in summer.

Not to be insulting, but I was also shocked when I learned that in the fifth grade.
 
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The Orion Nebula and the Eagle nebula are comparable to our Galaxy, not to our Solar System.

Why does water rotate when going down a drain?

You know, I heard something interesting about that, though I have no way of independently verifying it. I heard that water in the Northern Hemisphere revolves one way and reverses t's revolutions in the Southern Hemisphere.
 
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You know, I heard something interesting about that, though I have no way of independently verifying it. I heard that water in the Northern Hemisphere revolves one way and reverses t's revolutions in the Southern Hemisphere.

It doesn't
 
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You know, I heard something interesting about that, though I have no way of independently verifying it. I heard that water in the Northern Hemisphere revolves one way and reverses t's revolutions in the Southern Hemisphere.
I used to think that too, but come to find out, it isn't true.

QV for the 411 on that: SNOPES
 
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I knew the earth orbits in an oval path but I was shocked to learn the earth is closer to the sun in the winter and further from the sun in summer.
Weird, but true!
 
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Weird, but true!
Yeah, it makes me shutter to think of how cold it would get if it didn't. From what I've heard the coldness of Winter is because of the indirectness of the Sun's rays on the Earth during the Winter season.

If we were further away from the Sun than we are during Winter I would think the cold would be unbearable.
 
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I knew the earth orbits in an oval path but I was shocked to learn the earth is closer to the sun in the winter and further from the sun in summer.

Only in the northern hemisphere. DOwn here in the SOuthern hemisphere, we have summer when you have winter.
 
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Yes, when applied to the tooth fairy smashing the earth with a giant toothbrush long ago, it is. You claim some wunderbar stardust smashed into the world in an imaginary past, and started it spinning!!!!! That is not possible to prove any more than the tooth fairy baloney. Why would anyone embrace such godless nonsense over creation as told by holy Scripture?

And where's your evidence?

(Let me guess, it's going to be different state past, or "you weren't there so you don't know what happened" or something like that.)
 
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Man, that would be hilarious if it didn't indicate that someone spent a lot of time and effort on such folly.

56) The “Midnight Sun” is an Arctic phenomenon
occurring annually during the summer solstice where for
several days straight an observer significantly far enough
north can watch the Sun traveling circles over-head, rising
and falling in the sky throughout the day, but never fully
setting for upwards of 72+ hours! If the Earth were actually
a spinning globe revolving around the Sun, the only place
such a phenomenon as the Midnight Sun could be observed
would be at the poles. Any other vantage point from 89
degrees latitude downwards could never, regardless of any
tilt or inclination, see the Sun for 24 hours straight.


Surely it's clear that the tilt does indeed make the midnight sun possible within the Arctic Circle.
june-solstice-illustration.png
 
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Enoch was taken on a tour of the universe and shown all the pecuiiar paths of the sun, moon, stars/constellations, and planets, and how they bring in the years, days, and months, and weeks.
Biblically speaking, the sun runs its course in its ordained path in the circle of the earth/the circling heavens; and the moon follows the sun exactly in the same path/course, only falling behind in the path a certain number of days each year, until they are equal to the beginning one, again, and it starts over.

The Word of God declares that there is coming a time when the earth will one day be moved out of its place and turned upside down and jump about as a hunted roe. The seasons will be backwards and fruit will not appear in its season. Stars will fall from heaven [to earth, from whence they have their origin when God said "Let there be Light", on day one, and the electromagnetic forces of creation came out of the darkness and the "pillars of the earth" were set]. The wind and waves will rage, and great earthquakes will abound in strange places. The sun will be low on the western horizon, and will burn men on earth so that if God did not "cut short the parts of those days and nights by one third of their parts", then no flesh on earth would survive that time, which time is the Great Tribulation, coming.

http://summascriptura.com/html/Enoch_1_RHC.htm
The Geocentric Calendar Book* (Chapters 72-82)

Time From Now Until the New Creation
 
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Man, that would be hilarious if it didn't indicate that someone spent a lot of time and effort on such folly.

56) The “Midnight Sun” is an Arctic phenomenon
occurring annually during the summer solstice where for
several days straight an observer significantly far enough
north can watch the Sun traveling circles over-head, rising
and falling in the sky throughout the day, but never fully
setting for upwards of 72+ hours! If the Earth were actually
a spinning globe revolving around the Sun, the only place
such a phenomenon as the Midnight Sun could be observed
would be at the poles. Any other vantage point from 89
degrees latitude downwards could never, regardless of any
tilt or inclination, see the Sun for 24 hours straight.


Surely it's clear that the tilt does indeed make the midnight sun possible within the Arctic Circle.
june-solstice-illustration.png
Is that the only thing you got out of all 200 points? ;)
 
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Is that the only thing you got out of all 200 points? ;)

Well, I skimmed, and that one stood out as being obviously wrong to anyone with at least a third grade education.
 
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You do realize that your comment about point 56 doesn't seem to be in disagreement with the point?

No, I don't realize that. If the earth is a sphere, then anywhere within the Arctic Circle would see the Midnight Sun on the solstice. And the diagram I included should make it clear why (and why the tilt is in fact critical). This contradicts the statement that:

If the Earth were actually
a spinning globe
revolving around the Sun, the only place
such a phenomenon as the Midnight Sun could be observed
would be at the poles. Any other vantage point from 89
degrees latitude downwards could never, regardless of any
tilt or inclination
, see the Sun for 24 hours straight.
 
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