NASA and the Bible

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 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 done for us today
happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt,
Maryland.

They were checking out where the positions of the sun, moon, and planets
would be 100 years and 1,000 years from now.. We have to know this so we
won’t send up a satellite 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 with either 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 out.. 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 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 lasted
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

1000 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 death bed, 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.

One Response to “NASA and the Bible”

1. Lisa Ann on July 4th, 2008 10:40 am

   They think they know it all don’t they ? PTL they don’t.

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