RE: NASA and the missing day
January 20, 2015 at 2:50 pm
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2015 at 2:59 pm by Brian37.)
That is a bullshit argument pulled out of the bible's ambiguous words. It has also been used in the apologist book "Evidence That Demands A Virdict".
There is not one major religion that does not try to attack science or co opt science. No book of antiquity has any modern understanding of science.
It is nothing more than trying to retro fit after the fact.
I was going to mention that. Just last month on a podcast I was a guest on one of the other callers brought it up. If you read the actual entry all the way through, which the conspiracy nuts never do, yes there were a huge amount of people there, but they were not reporting the same thing.
It was a con, you stare at the sun long enough it is no different than pressing on your eyelids while they are closed. And even unique cloud cover and ice crystals can make the sky look different. I'd say thought who did see the sun dart, it was because of staring at the sun.
Scientists will tell you the sun is not physically capable of doing what people claimed it did. This mass hysteria is really no different than the same marketing Fox News propaganda sells. If you want to believe something badly enough, you will.
There is no value in myths or legends unless they are accepted as such. Holy books are tribal books that reflect the social norms and superstitions of the people that wrote them. They have no scientific value and they do little to nothing to bridge the divides in humanity.
There is not one major religion that does not try to attack science or co opt science. No book of antiquity has any modern understanding of science.
It is nothing more than trying to retro fit after the fact.
(January 20, 2015 at 2:45 pm)Full Circle Wrote: We also have the sun ”dancing in the sky” with 40,000 “witnesses”hock:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun
If one is predisposed to believing and seeing what they want to see it’s quite probable that people could even claim to see, oh, I don’t know, Bigfoots or Nessies.
I was going to mention that. Just last month on a podcast I was a guest on one of the other callers brought it up. If you read the actual entry all the way through, which the conspiracy nuts never do, yes there were a huge amount of people there, but they were not reporting the same thing.
It was a con, you stare at the sun long enough it is no different than pressing on your eyelids while they are closed. And even unique cloud cover and ice crystals can make the sky look different. I'd say thought who did see the sun dart, it was because of staring at the sun.
Scientists will tell you the sun is not physically capable of doing what people claimed it did. This mass hysteria is really no different than the same marketing Fox News propaganda sells. If you want to believe something badly enough, you will.
(January 20, 2015 at 11:21 am)Godschild Wrote: I have heard about this for many years and in my teens took it as fact, however growing in maturity and reading books for myself found the NASA thing not to be true. There are historical records from several places in the ancient world that do record a extra long day at the same time that Joshua lived.
Some of these peoples would have not known each other, some wouldn't have know some of these people existed. Admittedly I've not done a complete study of this, but here is some thing to consider.
There is apologetic value in ancient legends from various parts of the globe, however, including the following: “It is reported by historians that records of the Chinese during the reign of Emperor Yeo, who lived at the same time as Joshua, report ‘a long day.’ Also, Heroditus, a Greek historian, wrote that an account of ‘a long day’ appears in records of Egyptian priests. Others cite records of Mexicans of the sun standing still for an entire day in a year denoted as ‘Seven Rabits,’ which is the same year in which Joshua defeated the Philistines and conquered Palestine.” (Bible-Science Newsletter, Daily Reading Magazine, Supplement, Vol. VIII, No. 5, May 1978, Caldwell, Idaho.)
Additionally, the historical lore of the Aztecs, Peruvians, and Babylonians speak of a “day of twice natural length.” See http://www.zetatalk.com/theword/tword16a.htm ; see also Immanuel Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision.” If Joshua’s long day (not “missing” day) occurred—and of course I believe that it did—then we would expect its effects to show up in the historical records of other nations, and that is exactly what we find.
https://bible.org/question/has-%E2%80%9C...ntifically
GC
There is no value in myths or legends unless they are accepted as such. Holy books are tribal books that reflect the social norms and superstitions of the people that wrote them. They have no scientific value and they do little to nothing to bridge the divides in humanity.
