Oldmantook
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I suppose your explanation can be a viable one but my question would be is the 5 degree variation in plane still be enough to account for the huge shadow cast by the earth given it's exponentially larger size? Another question that comes to my mind is how is it possible that we are able to view a full moon during the day time? The biggest problem in my mind though is a scriptural one. In the OT, in Joshua 10:12 Joshua commanded both the sun and the moon to stop their movement. He did not command the earth to stop its rotation. In the heliocentric model, the earth would have had to stop its rotation. And if the earth did stop its rotation, imagine the havoc on earth that would result. Note this explanation from NASA itself on what would happen if the earth's rotation stopped: "The probability for such an event is practically zero in the next few billion years. If the Earth stopped spinning suddenly, the atmosphere would still be in motion with the Earth's original 1100 mile per hour rotation speed at the equator. All of the land masses would be scoured clean of anything not attached to bedrock. This means rocks, topsoil, trees, buildings, your pet dog, and so on, would be swept away into the atmosphere."The plane of the ecliptic is the plane of the earth's orbit about the sun. The plane of the moon's orbit about the earth is close but not identical to the plane of the ecliptic. It is actually tilted at about 5 degrees. If the two planes were the same we would see 13 lunar eclipses every year.
Obviously that didn't happen when Joshua commanded the sun and moon to stop. Nor did it happen when God caused the sun's shadow to go back ten steps on Ahaz's stairway as described in Isaiah 38:8. In this case the earth would have had to completely stop its rotation, start rotating in the opposite direction, stop a second time, then begin rotating in its normal rotation again. Both of these biblical accounts are only possible on a stationary earth.
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