(May 3, 2015 at 8:18 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(May 3, 2015 at 7:18 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: You scientists with your fancy ideas! Read your Bible; it clearly says that the sun stood still. (Joshua 10:13)
The way you are approaching the matter, you will next be telling us that the Bible is a bunch of ramblings of primitive, superstitious goat herders!
Really, the Bible so is very wrong, it would have to be corrected to be just plain wrong. As you are right to point out, it isn't the sun that would be standing still for the appearance of the sun to be standing still. And that never happened, either. It is wrong in the story it tells, and it is wrong in its explanation of what would have happened if the story were true. The Bible has layer upon layer of being wrong.
Actually, if you rotate the rest of the solar system around the earth's axis of rotation, it could be made to appear as if the sun stood still without stopping the rotation of the earth.
Your way, the Bible is still wrong, because the sun would be moving, not standing still.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.