The lost day...

This is an interesting piece of conversation Hemanth came across in one of his group emails...simply mind bending!! Think about it if you can!

"For all you 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 shows that He's still in control.

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 for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland They were checking the position of the sun, moon, and planets out in space where they would be 100 years and 1000 years from now. We have to know this so we won't send a satellite up, and have it bump into something later on 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 either with 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 a nd went back 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 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 hasted not to go down about a whole day!" 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 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 y ou'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.

Hezekiah, on his deathbed, 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 10 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? Our God is rubbing their noses in His Truth!

References: Joshua 10:8 and 12.13; 2 Kings 20:9-11"

"Sorry to bother you, but I couldn't help being bothered by what you sent us. First things first, it is the earth that rotates around the sun and so the 'position' of the sun or moon cannot vary with time, rather it is only our view of the sky that changes. So, to lose a day in the way you have described, the earth would have to stand still while the sun has its focus on modern day middle east and Asia minor, that is the earth would have to stop rotating. The rotation of the earth is due to the rotational inertia leftover from the time earth was little more than a ball of hot rotating gas and that was a few billion years ago (approx. 4.5). Since the mass of the earth is very large, the angular momentum from the rotation would be large and therefore large amount of energy (order of several Tera joules perhaps more) would have to be used to stop rotation. Once the day is over, to set the planet rotating again the same amount of energy has to be used again. If the earth stops rotating, even for 1 day, the magnetic fields protecting us from cosmic rays would become non-existent, trade winds would stop blowing (no Coriolis effect, no trade winds), worlds weather systems would be altered catastrophically, and even biological rhythms would be completely lost. In short, such a change would have changed the world into something else, not the world we know today. Because of these reasons, what you have said below is impossible. Also, the angle through which a shadow moves for a given time depends upon the latitude and longitude of that place.

Talk about religion, but don't talk about science without knowing what you are saying. I am sorry I have to be so harsh, but this is unacceptable."