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Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?

Poll: How many times does the EARTH rotate in one year?
This poll is closed.
At least once
14.29%
 6 14.29%
364 times
0%
 0 0%
365 times
9.52%
 4 9.52%
366 times
0%
 0 0%
367 times, in a leap year
2.38%
 1 2.38%
365.242... times
40.48%
 17 40.48%
366.242... times
14.29%
 6 14.29%
367.242... times, in a leap year
0%
 0 0%
It doesn't rotate, it spirals along a cylinder
9.52%
 4 9.52%
Answer depends on how you define "year"
9.52%
 4 9.52%
Total 42 vote(s) 100%
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Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year?
June 21, 2016 at 9:44 pm
(June 21, 2016 at 2:39 pm)Sheed1980 Wrote:
(June 21, 2016 at 8:23 am)Stimbo Wrote: That's not a pathway to truth; pointing out parts of the claim doesn't substantiate the claim as a whole any more than does my saying that Darth Vader existed in history because of the phrase "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away".

So who besides The Most High God Almighty, had this knowledge of these true factual statements, about science and astronomy, and mathematics in the 7th century, when technology (microscopes, telescopes, computers, man-made satellites etc.) did not exist?

The ancient Greeks.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: Dear stupid: how many times does the earth rotate in a year? - by The Valkyrie - June 21, 2016 at 9:44 pm

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