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The Longest Day - Online Term Paper

The Longest Day

Few of God's miracles cause protests in the "scientific" community like the
account of Joshua's long day - when God made the sun and moon to stand still.
But science and modern technology have done more to verify this phenominal
biblical fact than they have to refute it.
Common sense would say it is impossible for such a major disruption to occur and
not totally destroy the precise, perfect balance in the solar system. But given
a God, who created the heavens and the earth, who established the rotation of
the planets and stars to the fraction of a second, making the earth stop
rotating for 24 hours is not such a difficult task. Yet, computer scientists in
the space program and ...

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the same means, they have been able to
backtrack and determine these specific locations in the past. It was during one
such search that the extra day appeared.

From various accounts of the incident, it appears that something "did not
compute." The extra day was just there. There was no computer malfunction; there
was no explanation for the interruption of normal time patterns.

When this apparent error appeared and no explanation was forthcoming, one of the
scientists related that he had studied in Sunday School about time standing
still. A preposterous idea to scientists, but faced with no other explanation,
they asked him to show them the story.

In the story in the tenth chapter of the book of Joshua, Joshua had asked God to
make the sun and moon stand still to enable Joshua to defeat his enemies. Joshua
10:13 says, "And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had
avenged themselves upon their enemies... So the sun stood still in the midst of
heaven, and ...

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Added: 9/6/2005 11:56:41 AM
Category: Religion
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