Re: 'The Missing Day...'

Garry DeWeese (deweese@ucsu.Colorado.EDU)
Wed, 6 Mar 1996 15:57:37 -0700 (MST)

The "Missing Day" story is another of those "evangelical myths" like the
one I was taught as a child according to which men had one less rib than
women, due to God's Edenic surgical procedure. Or the story of Madeline
Murray O'Hair petitioning the FCC to have all religious broadcasting
banned. Or the Proctor & Gamble logo being a secret satanic symbol.

Jim Irwin, Apollo 15 astronaut, once told me he was often asked about the
missing day, and did some investigating. He finally tracked it to the author
of an evangelistic tract whose source was "a friend of a friend who
worked at Cape Kennedy but whose name he had forgotten."

As Prof. Van Till notes, it is sad that so many Christians are so eager to
believe anything, however implausible or spurious, which they think might
gain them a slight advantage. God is not honored by belief in
falsehoods, no matter how sincere.

Garry DeWeese
Dayspring Center for Christian Studies
Boulder, CO