Story on the day I lost my calculations
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Answer:
listmember has posted an account of a computer confirmation of the
missing day in Joshua 10 and the missing 40 minutes in 1 Kings 20.
He quotes a 1969 newspaper article which in turn quotes an engineer,
Harold Hill. (Mr Hill has written several books for Christians, such
as HOW TO LIVE LIKE A KING'S KID.)
William Willoughby, at that time religion editor of the Washington
(D.C.) EVENING STAR, inquired of the NASA Spaceflight Center at
Greenbelt, Maryland, where the computer proof is said to have
occurred. They denied all knowledge of it. He spoke with Mr. Hill,
who says that he obtained the story from a reliable source, and is
sure that it is true, but has mislaid his notes and cannot remember
exactly where he read or heard it. Many of us know the feeling, and
will absolve Mr. Hill from the charge of conscious dishonesty (he
has never admitted "making it up," and I find no reason to suppose
that he did), but at the same time will insist that his account is
not acceptable as evidence.
I first encountered the essentials of Hill's story some years before
the Greenbelt facility was built. The book THE HARMONY OF SCIENCE
AND SCRIPTURE, by Harry Rimmer, written in 1936, contains the
following account (281f), which I here condense:
Step-by-step explanation:
> There is a book by Prof. C A Totten of Yale, written in
> 1890....
> Professor Totten wrote of a fellow professor, an
> accomplished astronomer, who made the strange discovery that
> the earth was tweenty-four hours out of schedule! ... Prof.
> Totten challenged this man to investigate the question of the
> inspiration of the Bible. ... Some time later ... his colleague
> replied: "In the tenth chapter of Joshua, I found the missing
> twenty-four hours accounted for. Then I went back and checked
> up on my figures, and found that at the time of Joshua there
> were only 23 hours and 20 minutes lost."
> ... the astronomer ... read on until he came to the 38th
> chapter of the prophet Isaiah (NOTE by JEK: this recounts the
> same episode as 2 Kings 20).... So the accuracy of the book was
> established to the satisfaction of this exacting critic.
Charles Adiel Lewis Totten is described in WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICA.
He was a professor of military science at Yale from 1889 to 1892.
His book (one of many), JOSHUA'S LONG DAY AND THE DIAL OF AHAZ, was
published in 1890. In this book, the skeptical astronomer convinced
by a study of the Scriptures does not appear at all. Totten's
argument, so far as I understand it, goes like this.
> We know from Daniel 9:27 and from various other passages
> (mostly in Revelation) that the public ministry of Jesus lasted
> three and a half years. Since He was crucified at the spring
> equinox, He must have begun to preach at the fall equinox.
> Since he began to preach when He was thirty years old, He must
> have been born at the fall equinox. Since the world was created
> 4000 years before He was born, the world was created on
> September 22, 4000 BC. Therefore this day must have been a
> Sunday. But calculating back using a calendar, we find that
> this date was a Monday. Therefore there is a missing 24 hours.
> Since 40 minutes of this are accounted for by the story in 2
> Kings 20 (or Isaiah 38), we see that the "about a day" mentioned
> in Joshua 10 must account for the remaining 23 hours and 20
> minutes. End of proof.
CONCLUSION: It appears that the story began with Totten's
calculations, which you will note are not based on any astronomical
discoveries, bit on some questionable assumptions about Bible
chronology. As references to Totten's work were
consider the possibility that the eclipse report was in error.)
However, there do not appear to be any such reports. If anyone knows
of any, I am always .
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