Where is the missing day???

[KeV_Of_COR]

For all the scientists out there, and for all the students who have a
hard
>time convincing these people regarding the truth of the Bible,
>here's something that shows God's awesome creation ...and that He is
still
>in control.
>
>Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been
>called "myth" in the Bible is true? 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. The
>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, 'Don't give them a second thought. I've put
them
>under your thumb... not one of them will stand up to you!' "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 stopped in its tracks in mid sky; just sat
there
all
>day. There's never been a day like that before or since ...'(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 1000 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 advance ten
degrees
>on the sundial, or to go back ten degrees? You choose.' Hezekiah
said, 'It
>would be easy to make the sun's shadow advance ten degrees. Make it go
back
>ten degrees.' So Isaiah called out in prayer to God, 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!" Amazing? References: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13 and 2 Kings
20:9-11.


This is wat my fren emailed me......i think God is AMAZING and for those non-believers....read ur bible....^^

 

[ZiSunka]

Kev, this is a well-known hoax.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/joshuaday.htm

 

[Jet Black]

it got lost in urban myth land.

 

[ZiSunka]

Sure did. It's sort of a Never-never-land, in that these rumors, once started, never, never go away!

 

[Aceldama]

This is one of those naughty arguments that Answers In Genesis ( a creationist organization if you didnt know) says you should not use.

Check out
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dont_use.asp

‘NASA computers, in calculating the positions of planets, found a missing day and 40 minutes, proving Joshua’s “long day” and Hezekiah’s sundial movement of Joshua 10 and 2 Kings 20.’ Not promoted by major creationist organizations, but an hoax in wide circulation, especially on the Internet.
Essentially the same story, now widely circulated on the Internet, appeared in the somewhat unreliable 1936 book The Harmony of Science and Scripture by Harry Rimmer. Evidently an unknown person embellished it with modern organization names and modern calculating devices.
Also, the whole story is mathematically impossible—it requires a fixed reference point before Joshua’s long day. In fact we would need to cross-check between both astronomical and historical records to detect any missing day. And to detect a missing 40 minutes requires that these reference points be known to within an accuracy of a few minutes. It is certainly true that the timing of solar eclipses observable from a certain location can be known precisely. But the ancient records did not record time that precisely, so the required cross-check is simply not possible. Anyway, the earliest historically recorded eclipse occurred in 1217 [size=-1]BC[/size], nearly two centuries after Joshua. So there is no way the missing day could be detected by any computer. See also Has NASA Discovered a ‘Missing Day’? for historical and scientific documentation that this alleged discovery is mythological.
Note that discrediting this myth doesn’t mean that the events of Joshua 10 didn’t happen. Features in the account support its reliability, e.g. the moon was also slowed down. This was not necessary to prolong the day, but this would be observed from Earth’s reference frame if God had accomplished this miracle by slowing Earth’s rotation. See Joshua’s long day—did it really happen?

*Emphasis miiiine.

 

[JohnR7]

Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been called "myth" in the Bible is true? Harold Hill,President of the
Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, Maryland, and a consultant in the space

From what I have been told about it, there is a Harold Hill, and he did do some sort of work for NASA. But lots of different people work with NASA at one time or another.

As far as his computer program, he has never produced it. So for now it is considered to be a myth or a more modern version of an older myth.

 

[KeV_Of_COR]

well....old myth is always gd to be recalled

 

[JohnR7]

well....old myth is always gd to be recalled

Esp. if you can modernize it.

Look at the men are from mars and women are from venus books. It is just an old myth in a new wrapper.

 

[KeV_Of_COR]

hahahaha....gd example.....but i must admit that the book itself is a pretty gd book......

 

[Phred]

You're kidding right? Don'tcha know Harold Hill is the lead character in the Music Man... he's a con man.

Pretty funny how quickly creationists bought into that one... The world can't be 3.8 billion years old because all the methods of dating it are mistaken... but NASA can and did find the missing day... Good ol' science. Wonderful when it agrees, completely false and evil when it doesn't.

 

[Siliconaut]

@Kev:

well....old myth is always gd to be recalled

As long as you realize a myth is just a myth, recollection poses no problem.

 

[AV1611VET]

This is wat my fren emailed me......i think God is AMAZING and for those non-believers....read ur bible....^^

This is the kind of stuff that makes us look like clowns.

 

[wensdee]

This is the kind of stuff that makes us look like clowns.

You wish AV you wish if only that was true.

 

[JustMeSee]

AV1611VET, are you an EMT or medical professional? You know why I ask right?

 

[Delphiki]

This one is actually a pretty funny thread to necro. The idea that our satellites might collide with another planet while in earth orbit is hilarious. I guess Mars is a lot closer than we thought, eh? lol

 

[Gracchus]

This is the kind of stuff that makes us look like clowns.

That, and your avatar...

 

[Freodin]

This is the kind of stuff that makes us look like clowns.

What?

Is that you, openly critizising a Brother in Christ? In front of unbelievers?? Telling him that something he said is nonsense???

Shameful display, AV! Shameful display!

 

[Mixolydian]

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Before an 8 year old resurrected thread needlessly goes off the rails this is being closed.

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