Missing the fun

[Mick_in_England]

By dismissing the bible out of hand, atheists are missing out on all the fun of speculating about some of the stuff in it
For example, God decided to give a sign to everybody around 700 BC -
“Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down” (Isaiah 38:8 )
Ok lets speculate -
1 - Was the event witnessed and recorded by say ancient astronomers in China or wherever? Maybe its in their old scriptures?
2 - Did the sun only appear to reverse because the earths rotation reversed temporarily, or did the sun actually move backward in space?
3 - If the earths rotation reversed, would people sense it through the soles of their feet?
4 - And would the reversal cause oceans and lakes to slosh about?
5 - If the sun was displaced in space, would the gravitational disturbances make the whole solar system wobble?
6 - And why did God choose 10 degrees? Why not 5 or 20, 30 etc? How would 10 degrees look anyway, would it be all that noticeable or would most people simply not notice it?
Maybe we should get some astronomers in here to join in the speculating fun

[Satori]

3 - If the earths rotation reversed, would people sense it through the soles of their feet?
4 - And would the reversal cause oceans and lakes to slosh about?
5 - If the sun was displaced in space, would the gravitational disturbances make the whole solar system wobble?

None of these would be what happened because if the Earth ceased rotation to turn the other way every being would have essentially been tossed and crushed by the impact.

The water of the earth would have more than sloshed. It would destroy most of the land.

And if the sun went the Earth prolly would have been burned along with the other planets close to the sun.

[Mick_in_England]

But what if the earths rotation was reversed slowly, perhaps people wouldn’t notice it gradually slowing down and then reversing?
As for the sun being moved in space, how far would it have to be moved to appear as a 10 degree shift? Not a lot I should imagine?

[Satori]

But what if the earths rotation was reversed slowly, perhaps people wouldn’t notice it gradually slowing down and then reversing?

image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/q1168.html

Therefore, if you were to hang above the surface of the Earth at the equator without moving, you would see 25,000 miles pass by in 24 hours, at a speed of 25000/24 or just over 1000 miles per hour.

If it slowed down steadily you would see huge cataclysmic events, and most likely would have some negative effects on the earth’s Magnetic field.

As for the sun being moved in space, how far would it have to be moved to appear as a 10 degree shift? Not a lot I should imagine?

Think about it like this. If the sun is 100,000 miles (of course it is alot further away) and creates the current temperature on earth. If it moved however many miles in any direction the effects would be devastating. It would either scorch, freeze, or shift the biomes of not only our planet but all the others. It is an interesting concept and all but it would be the earth shifting rather than the sun which would be more plausible.