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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Report on the ]
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[ ]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Contra-Versi reguarding ]
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[x]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [God's Longest Day ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [Miracle ]
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Dizzed: 10/94 # of Words:677 School: ? State: ?
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The Longest Day
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Few of God's miracles cause protests in the "scientific" community like
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the account of Joshua's long day - when God made the sun and moon to stand
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still. But science and modern technology have done more to verify this
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phenominal biblical fact than they have to refute it.
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Common sense would say it is impossible for such a major disruption to
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occur and not totally destroy the precise, perfect balance in the solar
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system. But given a God, who created the heavens and the earth, who
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established the rotation of the planets and stars to the fraction of a
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second, making the earth stop rotating for 24 hours is not such a difficult
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task. Yet, computer scientists in the space program and mathematicians -
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one a former professor at Yale University - have discovered that a whole
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day has been unaccountably added in time.
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The positions of the moon, sun, and planets have to be calculated
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precisely for all space shots to avoid problems in establishing the
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satellite's orbit. The orbit has to be calculated for the life of the
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satellite to avoid its running into something else in space.
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Using computers, scientists can tell the exact location of the planets
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and their moons for years into the future. By the same means, they have
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been able to backtrack and determine these specific locations in the past.
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It was during one such search that the extra day appeared.
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From various accounts of the incident, it appears that something "did
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not compute." The extra day was just there. There was no computer
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malfunction; there was no explanation for the interruption of normal time
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patterns.
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When this apparent error appeared and no explanation was forthcoming,
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one of the scientists related that he had studied in Sunday School about
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time standing still. A preposterous idea to scientists, but faced with no
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other explanation, they asked him to show them the story.
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In the story in the tenth chapter of the book of Joshua, Joshua had
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asked God to make the sun and moon stand still to enable Joshua to defeat
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his enemies. Joshua 10:13 says, "And the sun stood still, and the moon
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stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies... So
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the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about
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a whole day."
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There was the extra day that science couldn't account for. But
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scientists are more exact than that. The term, "about a whole day" was not
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close enough for them.
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They rechecked their computers, going back to the time when the story
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was written. Their calculations showed that the time the sun stood still
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was 23 hours and 20 minutes. It was not a whole day. This forty minutes
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was significant to the computer experts with their penchant for precision.
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A missing forty minutes would throw things off for years into the future.
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The former Sunday School pupil piped up again, saying he knew of
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another Bible story where the sun traveled backward. This possibility was
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even more bizarre than the sun standing still, said his skeptical, fellow
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scientists. But they agreed to hear him out, even if only to prove him
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wrong.
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They got out the Book again and turned to II Kings 20 and read about
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Hezekiah on his death bed. The prophet Isaiah told Hezekiah he would not
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die, but Hezekiah required a sign from God. So, Isaiah proposed to have
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God move the sun forward 10 degrees.
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In verse 10, Hezekiah says, "It is a light thing for the shadow to go
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down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees."
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Isaiah called upon God and the shadow on the sun dial moved back 10
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degrees. Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes. These 40 minutes in II Kings,
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combined with the 23 hours and 20 minutes in Joshua, account forn the extra
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day - the 24 God given hours that space travelers will have to include in
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their calculations.
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From - Christian Science Monitor & The Evangelist
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