Hoax or not "NASA Proves the Bible is Correct?"

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I came across this but something doesnt seem right, if it was true it should be posted everywhere, yet I only found it at a obscure site..

"....NASA Proves the Bible is Correct
Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been called "myth" in the Bible is true? Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland, and a consultant in the space program, relates the following development: "I think one of the most amazing things that God has done for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at GreenBelt, Maryland.

They were checking out where the positions of the sun, moon, and planets would be 100 years and 1,000 years from now. We have to know this so we won't send up a satellite and have it bump into something later on in its orbits. We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite and where the planets will be so the whole thing will not bog down. "They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries, and it came to a halt.

The computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was something wrong with either the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it out, and they said,'What's wrong?' Well, they found there is a day missing in space in elapsed time. They scratched their heads and tore their hair.

There was no answer. "Finally a Christian man on the team said,'You know, one time I was in Sunday School, and they talked about the sun standing still.' While they didn't believe him, they didn't have an answer either, so they said,'Show us.' "He got a Bible and went to the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for any one with 'common sense.' There they found the Lord saying to Joshua,'Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.' "Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy, and if darkness fell, they would overpower them.

So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That's right...'The sun stood still and the moon stayed and lasted not to go down about a whole day!'(Joshua 10:12-13)

"The astronauts and scientists said,'There is the missing day!' They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it was close but not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes...not a whole day. "They read the Bible, and there it was 'about (approximately) a day.' These little words in the Bible are important, but they were still in trouble because if you cannot account for 40 minutes, you'll still be in trouble 1,000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits. "As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere in the Bible where it said the sun went BACKWARDS. The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but they got out the Book and read these words in 2 Kings that told of the following story:

'Hezekiah, on his death bed, was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for a sign as proof. Isaiah said 'Do you want the sun to go ahead 10 degrees?' Hezekiah said,'It is nothing for the sun to go ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow return backward 10 degrees.' Isaiah spoke to the Lord, and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees BACKWARD! "Ten degrees is exactly
40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in Second Kings make the missing day in the universe!"

Isn't it amazing?
References: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11...."
 

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The snopes link says we have no "master clock" no way of "knowing" that time might be missing.

Not exactly true.

Sidereal Time and Solar Time

In using the sky for timekeeping, we must define a reference point to determine when a cycle of the required motion has been completed. If we choose a reference point afixed to the celestial sphere, the corresponding time is being referenced to the distant stars and is termed sidereal time. If instead we choose the Sun as the reference point, the corresponding time is called solar time (or tropical time).
Technically, the sidereal time is defined as the length of time since the vernal equinox has crossed the local celestial meridian. An equivalent definition of the sidereal time is the right ascension of any star presently located on the local celestial meridian. Thus, if the star Sirius is presently on your celestial meridian, the sidereal time is 6 hours and 45 minutes because we saw earlier that Sirius is located at 6 hr 45 min right ascension on the celestial sphere. Generally our everyday (civil) time is referenced to the (average) motion of the Sun, not the vernal equinox. Thus, sidereal time generally does not coincide with the everyday (wall clock) time. To be precise, the sidereal time agrees with the solar time only at the autumnal equinox; at any other time, they differ (they are exactly 12 hours apart at the time of the vernal equinox).

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/timekeeping.html

When NASA does calculations for objects in the sky over years of time they use sidereal time. It is independant of the sun's position in our sky so with respect to the sun it is a "master clock".

If the earth were to halt it's rotation for 23 hours but continue in it's orbit around the sun -- there would be a slight change in the position of the stars in the sky -- even though there is no change in the sun's position. To "detect" the gap -- you can not go back 1000 years or 2000 years -- you need to go back almost 3500 years and you need to have recorded "celestial observations" from ancient observers to compare your computed calculations to know of the gap.

in Christ,

Bob
 
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The Rimmer book came and on page 281 it refers to an unnamed (par for the course back then, and then people complained about EGW not mentioning her sources!) book by a "Prof. C. A. Totten of Yale, written in 1890." The book tells a story ab't Totten meeting an unnamed astronomer who had found that the arth was 24 hours out of schedule.

In more searching on the web I found that the title of the book was "Joshua's long day and the dial of Ahaz. A scientific vindication and "a midnight cry."--I have requested that from a library as well.

See here for more info: http://books.google.com/books?id=PhkINW48_J0C&pg=PA141&dq=%22C.+A.+Totten%22+Joshua&lr=
 
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