I was actually looking for this jsut the other day. Thanks.
Hilarious!
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!
There's only one problem with this. The rotation of the Earth...one day...is exactly 23 hours, 59 minutes and 56 seconds.
Not 24 hours.
http://www.curtisengine.com/AboutUs/harold_hill.cfm
Harold Hill was President of Curtis Engine until 1973. Harold passed away in 1986.
Curtis Engine & Equipment, Inc. does not substantiate or continue Harold's personal research. Unfortunately, we have no information concerning the "Missing Day" nor do we have any connections at NASA who would be able to corroborate Harold's claims.
BTTT
It's an urban legend, sorry.
http://www.snopes.com/religion/lostday.htm
Status: False.
The more atheists dig into science to disprove the existence of God and make the Bible into a hoax, they only succeed in proving there is a God who knows the beginning from the end and everything in between, and that modern science only confirms that the Word Of God is true.
"If you seek me with your whole heart, you will find Me." --GOD
P.S. Even if that search is to disprove the truth as scientists see it.
This story is full of so many holes, it's truly sad. It's a myth, and an old one at that. No computer would find such a thing because they work on data we have accumulated and put into them. So unless you believe that someone was recording astronomical data to input into computers several thousand years ago...Well, you get the picture.
This kind of thing just makes Christians look silly. Please don't spread it around any more.
Sorry to be so blunt, but there it is.
Ridiculous, preposterous and a few more multi syllabic words.
JPL has a 4,000,000,000 year back computation of the solar system. There were no day's missing. This seems like the usual Creationist nonsense trying to sneak into scientific classrooms.
I'm sorry but this "letter" is just plain silly. Assuming that the biblical story of the missing day is 100% true, a computer would just plot the celestial positions oblivious to "missing time" and there would be an difference between what the computer had plotted and what had really happened. The computer would not be able to display that difference as an error because it would be unaware that any difference existed. Computers only perform mathmatical calculations that are programmed into them. The only way that the computer could pick up an error of this kind, is if it was programmed into the calculation through known celestial positions prior to and after the "missing day". Since we have no accurate celestial data prior to the last couple of centuries it would be impossible to catch an error like this. This story looks to be an urban legend written to inspire faith in Christianity. I don't believe that faith in God should need the assistance of a false story, after all to call a story an urban legend is just another way of saying that it is a lie.
Nothing personal Charlite
bump
This hoax is at least 25 years old.