Re: Sun standing still, & going backwards

From: bivalve (bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 16:02:15 EST

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I believe the Answers in Genesis web page has a rebuttal of this claim as well. It might carry more weight with some audiences.
The story has a couple of major internal problems as well as being historically false. The Biblical texts are not exactly accurately rendered, the precision is entirely unjustifiable from the Biblical text, and the computer has no reason to know that it has made a mistake if a day really is missing. It would have just kept counting backwards, unaware that something was missing.

    Dr. David Campbell
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"Mollusks murmured 'Morning!'. And salmon chanted 'Evening!'."-Frank Muir, Oh My Word!

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