You could at least do us the courtesy of including the scripture !
You know - I am continually amazed at the obstinacy of atheists. Here as soon as some problem needs a technological solution, a scientific solution, and this is proposed or explained by scientists you guys lay prostrate to these in utter worship and admiration. But when it comes to God having done something spectacular, you get brain freeze, brain lock.
Does that scripture say that he reversed the rotation of the earth anywhere? No, not even one place. This is utterly and a personal assumption you yourself make.
Have you ever heard of refraction, mirrors, and lenses? Of course not- - you are much too learned for this childish stuff.
Do you know why the sun looks bigger at sundown than at noon?
Have you ever heard of Fata Morganas, mirages? Probably not -
Here we have natural phenomena where things that usually cannot be seen from our vantage point are seen:
" . . . This was observed for the first time in 1596, when a ship under the command of Willem Barents looking for the Northeast passage got stuck in the ice at Novaya Zemlya, and the crew had to endure the polar winter there. They saw their midwinter night ending with the rise of a distorted sun about 2 weeks earlier than expected. It was not until the 20th century that Europeans understood the reason: the real sun had still been under their horizon, but its light rays followed the curvature of the Earth. This effect is often called a Novaya Zemlya mirage."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage
Would it then be implausible for the Creator, the most imminent scientist and powerful one, to cause the light from the sun to bend and cause the sun to appear in a different position than it really was?
We have no idea of the method, but don't succumb to atheistic mindlessness. It is a brain rot, a disease. If the people who wrote the account said they observed it, then it happened. It is just plain events that were recorded as they happened.
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Edit: @Michael Darnell
Just recently in the news a very public UFO sighting was experienced by a great many, and, yet, many already try to puh puh it away. Over the years many such UFO sightings have occurred by reliable sources that really cannot be questioned. Even the Tether Incident of NASA seen on Youtube bears this out.
Where am I going with this, you ask?
UFO's have been observed making from zero to full speed accelerations, 90 degree turns at speeds that would squash any human beings inside. Yet, they do it. They have no rocket engines, yet their speed and control is beyond comprehension.
Beyond comprehension:
If you think you can make a UFO and demonstrate this kind of activity even explain how it works, please do!
Or, do you have to admit that there are things we just don't understand, and cannot explain! If the latter is a fact, then perhaps, do you really think that you can comprehend what the creator does, how he makes his miracles occur all the time?
As I stated. I do not know. All I said is that nowhere does the account include the earth stopping a moment and nobody in the account felt even the tinies of jolts from the earth moving under their feet!
What happened was that something that humans could not explain then or now occurred - if this was done by refraction of the suns rays - is not important for the people then knew it to be a sign from God. They knew it to be extraordinary and in the order of magnitude that they couldn't hope to emulate ever.