NASA and the Bible
For all the scientists out there and for all the students who have a
hard time convincing these
people regarding the truth of the Bible...here's something that shows
God's awesome
creation and shows that He is still in control.
Did you know that the space program is busy proving that what has been
called "myth" in the
Bible is true? Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company
in Baltimore Maryland
and a consultant in the space program, relates the following
development.
"I think one of the most amazing things that God has for us today
happened recently to our astronauts
and space scientists at Greenbelt, Maryland. They were checking the
position of the sun, moon, and
planets out in space where they would be 100 years and 1000 years from
now. We have to
know this so we won't send a satellite up and have it bump into
something later on 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 thing will not bog down.
They ran the computer measurement back and forth over the centuries and
it came to a halt. The
computer stopped and put up a red signal, which meant that there was
something wrong either 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 they said, "What's wrong?" Well, they
found there is a day missing in
space in elapsed time. They scratched their heads and tore their hair.
There was no answer.
Finally, a Christian man on the team said, "You know, one time I was in
Sunday School and they talked
about the sun standing still. "While they didn't believe him, they
didn't have an answer either, so they said,
"Show us."
He got a Bible and went back to the book of Joshua where they found a
pretty ridiculous statement
for any one with "common sense." There they found the Lord saying to
Joshua, "Fear them not, I have
delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them stand before
thee."
Joshua was concerned because he was surrounded by the enemy and if
darkness fell they would
overpower them. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still!
That's right-"The sun stood still and the moon stayed-and hasted not to
go down about a whole day!"
(Joshua 10:12-13)
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 was close but 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 and there it was "about (approximately) a day"
These little words in the Bible are
important, but they were still in trouble because if you cannot account
for 40 minutes you'll still
be in trouble 1,000 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 where it said the
sun went BACKWARDS. The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but
they got out the
Book and read these words in 2 Kings that told of the following story:
Hezekiah, on his deathbed,
was visited by the prophet Isaiah who told him that he was not going to
die. Hezekiah asked for a
sign as proof. Isaiah said "Do you want the sun to go ahead 10 degrees?"
Hezekiah said "It is
nothing for the sun to go ahead 10 degrees, but let the shadow return
backward 10 degrees."
Isaiah spoke to the Lord and the Lord brought the shadow ten degrees
BACKWARD!
Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and 20 minutes in
Joshua, plus 40 minutes in
Second Kings make the missing day in the universe!" Isn't it amazing?
References: Joshua 10:8 and 12,13 and 2 Kings 20:9-11.
EDIT: helps if I include the e-mail
Kiyup go piss up a rope for the completely usless comment 
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