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For all you scientists out there and for all the students who have had a
hard time convincing these people regarding the truth of the Bible -
here's something that illustrates God's awesome creation and shows He is
still in control.
Did you know that NASA's space programmes are busy proving that what has
been called 'myth' in the Bible is true? Mr. Harold Hill, President of
the Curtis engine Company in Baltimore , and a consultant in the space
programmes, relates the following incident:
"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 out the positions of the sun, moon and planets out in
space where they would be 100, and 1000 years from now. We have to know
this as we do not want a satellite to collide with any of these in 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 project will not bog down.
Computer measurements and data were run back and forth over the
centuries when suddenly it came to a halt, displaying a red signal,
which meant that either there was something wrong 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 the technicians
asked what was wrong. The scientists had discovered that somewhere in
space in elapsed time a day was missing.. Nobody seemed able to come up
with a solution to the problem.
Finally one of the team, a Christian, said: "You know, when I was still
in Sunday school, they spoke about the sun standing still."
While his colleagues didn't believe him, they did not have an answer
either, so they said: "Show us."
He got a Bible and opened it at the book of Joshua where they found a
pretty ridiculous statement for any one with 'common sense'. There they
read about the Lord saying to Joshua: "Fear them not, I have delivered
them into thy hand; there shall not be a man of them stand before thee."
(Joshua 10:8).
Joshua was concerned because the enemy had surrounded him, and if
darkness fell, they would overpower him. So Joshua asked the Lord to
make the sun stand still! That's right - "And the sun stood still and
the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their
enemies. Is this not written in the book of Ja'-sher? So the sun stood
still in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole
day." (Joshua 10:13).
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, but it was not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing
back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes - not a whole day.
They read the Bible again and there it was: "about
(approximately) a day."
These little words in the Bible were important, but they were still in
trouble, because another 40 minutes were still unaccounted for, and this
could mean 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 which said the sun went backwards. The scientists told him he
was out of his mind, but once again they opened the Book and read these
words in 2 Kings. Hezekiah, on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet,
Isaiah, who told him he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for some
sign as proof. Isaiah said: "Shall the sun go forward ten degrees, or go
back ten degrees?"
And Hezekiah answered: "It is a light thing for the shadow to go down
ten degrees; nay, but let the shadow return backwards ten degrees."
And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord, and He brought the shadow
ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz." (2
Kings 20:9 -11).
Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and twenty minutes
in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in 2 Kings accounted for the missing day in
the universe!
Isn't this amazing? Our God is rubbing their noses in His Truth!
Kyk hier http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_nasa_missing_day2.htm , """NASA weighs in
ReplyDeleteNASA scientists addressed the reliability of Harold Hill's information from a technical standpoint in a March 25, 1997 Web site feature entitled "Ask an Astrophysicist," essentially pooh-poohing the very premise of the story. The future orbits of the planets aren't calculated by going "back and forth over the centuries" to plot their past positions, they explained. It's done with simple, highly accurate formulae that can predict any future position of a planet based on its current position. "This calculation would not cover any time before the present, so some missing day many centuries ago, if it had occurred, could not be uncovered with this method," the scientists wrote.
"In general," they concluded, "trying to prove events that are said to have occurred in the Bible, using scientific principles, doesn't work. Most scientists draw a clear distinction between things that are taken on faith, and those that are testable and therefore falsifiable. Science deals with the later, and religion with the former."
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