Why does the solar system seem so random?

[JohnClay]

I wonder why there are about 365.2422 days in a year rather than the 360 that some cultures used? The moon cycle is 29.5 days rather than 4 weeks (28 days). It gives me the impression that there wasn't much planning behind their design.

Genesis 1:14 says:

Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years

That suggests God planned them to some degree.

Though on the other hand it is good how the Sun and the Moon were roughly the right sizes to cover each other with phases of the Moon and eclipses.

 

[BobRyan]

I wonder why there are about 365.2422 days in a year rather than the 360 that some cultures used? The moon cycle is 29.5 days rather than 4 weeks (28 days). It gives me the impression that there wasn't much planning behind their design.

Genesis 1:14 says:

That suggests God planned them to some degree.

Though on the other hand it is good how the Sun and the Moon were roughly the right sizes to cover each other with phases of the Moon and eclipses.

It does seem more like it started off as 360 and as 28 but then as Orbital velocity of both moon and Earth slowed - the time lengthened for a given their orbits

OR maybe it was 30 days for the moon so then 360 for one orbit of the Earth all works out to exactly 12 months in a year.

 

[d taylor]

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It is part of the science deception read, All past Time by J.B Dimbleby

 

[Jonaitis]

I wonder why there are about 365.2422 days in a year rather than the 360 that some cultures used? The moon cycle is 29.5 days rather than 4 weeks (28 days). It gives me the impression that there wasn't much planning behind their design.

Genesis 1:14 says:

That suggests God planned them to some degree.

Though on the other hand it is good how the Sun and the Moon were roughly the right sizes to cover each other with phases of the Moon and eclipses.

Well, time units are subjective. We could have easily came up with a shorter or longer second, minute, and hour unit to make the rotation of these celestial objects appear perfect.

However, a solar eclipse, for example, is an interesting perceivable phenomenon. When the moon is positioned at such an amazing distance phenomenologically to create a ring of light, I see design of some sort.

 

[Radagast]

Well, time units are subjective.

Not days, years, or lunar months.

 

[Radagast]

I wonder why there are about 365.2422 days in a year rather than the 360 that some cultures used? The moon cycle is 29.5 days rather than 4 weeks (28 days). It gives me the impression that there wasn't much planning behind their design.

You would have planned it "better," would you?

 

[JohnClay]

Well, time units are subjective. We could have easily came up with a shorter or longer second, minute, and hour unit to make the rotation of these celestial objects appear perfect.

A year is the ratio ("days") of the time to orbit the Sun and the time for the Earth to spin on its axis. A lunar month is a similar ratio to do with the rotation of the Moon or something.

 

[JohnClay]

You would have planned it "better," would you?

Yes. 365.2422 (approximately) days per year means you need leap days and exceptions to leap years (every century) and leap seconds. I think some computer systems can add leap seconds every now and then to stop the drift of days.

Leap second - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

So I would have made it 360.00000000000000000 days per year or some other whole number.

 

[timf]

Overall, Earth's spin has slowed by about 6 hours in the past 2740 years, the team reports today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society - Science.org

The solar system was not created to be a constant precision machine. The dynamic processes we observe today do not tend to support the evolution theory.

 

[JohnClay]

Overall, Earth's spin has slowed by about 6 hours in the past 2740 years, the team reports today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society - Science.org

The solar system was not created to be a constant precision machine. The dynamic processes we observe today do not tend to support the evolution theory.

This says "Hundreds of millions of years ago, a day was only about 22 hours long"

Earth's Rotation Has Slowed Down Over Billions of Years

We have the moon's gravity to blame.

www.discovermagazine.com

 

[DragonFox91]

I wonder if Leap Years were or are intended to be holy in some way. We think something doesn't fit so it must be wrong or broken, but God sets things apart for him. His design is perfect

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It is part of the science deception read, All past Time by J.B Dimbleby

What is that about, taylor? I tried searching for it but can't find a summary of it, only the whole book published!

I have read that there are more accurate calendars then the one we use.

 

[timf]

https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-eclipses-show-earth-s-rotation-slowing

They made calculations from historical reports of eclipses.

 

[d taylor]

I wonder if Leap Years were or are intended to be holy in some way. We think something doesn't fit so it must be wrong or broken, but God sets things apart for him. His design is perfect


What is that about, taylor? I tried searching for it but can't find a summary of it, only the whole book published!

I have read that there are more accurate calendars then the one we use.

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He basically shows how time has been corrupted and is not being kept like it was in Biblical times

Try this link All past time : by five lines of astronomical time : authenticated by the British Chronological and Astronomical Association, and the only complete record of time published : containing a classification of all eclipses and transits from creation ... showing the total number of the years of the world, and every day since creation in weeks of seven days, together with tables of the kings of Babylon, Assyria, Egypt, Judah, Israel, Persia, and Roman emperors of the first century

Here is another one of interest The historical Bible with straight-forward A.M. years and dates : obtained from five lines of astronomical time, for the use of students of Scripture, Bible classes, historians and astronomers : Dimbleby, J. B. (Jabez Bunting), 1827- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Also part of the book (All Past Time) can be found in this book Amazon.com

And viewed here online Alex Gleason Is The Bible From Heaven Is The Earth A Globe : Alexander Gleason : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

 

[johansen]

https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-eclipses-show-earth-s-rotation-slowing

They made calculations from historical reports of eclipses.

6 hours over 2740 years doesnt mean a day was 18 hours, it means had the earths rotation not slowed down, it would be 6 hours ahead of its current position.

They worded it that way as click bate

 

[Radagast]

I have read that there are more accurate calendars then the one we use.

No, there are not.

 

[Radagast]

He basically shows how time has been corrupted and is not being kept like it was in Biblical times​

The Jews used a lunar-solar calendar. We still use that for Easter.

There is nothing holy about a lunar-solar calendar, though.

 

[2PhiloVoid]

I wonder why there are about 365.2422 days in a year rather than the 360 that some cultures used? The moon cycle is 29.5 days rather than 4 weeks (28 days). It gives me the impression that there wasn't much planning behind their design.

Genesis 1:14 says:

That suggests God planned them to some degree.

Though on the other hand it is good how the Sun and the Moon were roughly the right sizes to cover each other with phases of the Moon and eclipses.

We don't want to overthink this too much. It's probably better to just see that Day 4 contrasts in meaning with how the other ancient cultures evaluated the astrological meaning of the Sun and the Moon. In other words: The Sun and the Moon are just celestial objects that can be used to mark days and seasons, etc. rather than as gods themselves to be worshiped.