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 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.)