Why God stopping the sun in the sky is utterly stupid.

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This is part 38 of Thunderf00t's "Why do people laugh at creationists?" series. It was just uploaded today. While this one is not rebuke of creationism per se, the person he rebukes this time is creationist who believes the that the story in Bible of God stopping the sun in the sky for Joshua actually happened, though guy believe this happened by stopping the Earth's rotation. Of course one only has to understand the law of conservation of momentum and Newton's first law of motion as well as how much energy is involved in the Earths rotation and orbital velocity to understand why this is totally and utterly ridiculous. Stopping the Earth from rotating would actually be a much better and faster way of killing everything on Earth and their fabled Noah's flood.

Thunderf00t also goes into some detail about into why the genocide God commanded Joshua to do is quite abhorrent, despite that some Christian apologists such as William Lane Craig actually defend it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-hGFMBpbI&feature=plcp[/youtube]

The largest energy source in the solar system is the Sun and even the Sun could not exert enough counter torque on Earth to stop it from rotating. The sun's energy is directed orthogonally on Earth therefore it does no work on Earth. the F.d = 0 if F is orthogonal to d.

ruveyn

Yeah, but if a god really did this sort of thing, couldn't it have just used magical power to keep everything else on the Earth alive and then when the time is right, allow the planet's rotation to continue and then remove the magical power because it's no longer necessary? An all-powerful god would be able to do that, so when thinking about it like this, it doesn't seem as absurd. The important question is "Did this really happen?" not whether or not it's possible for an all-powerful god to do it.

Its funny some people still dont think gravity exists and say its gods will holding us to the ground. silly creationists.

Gravity does not exist.

What we think of as gravity is matter warping spacetime and creating a temporal gradient that draws other matter toward the 'slowest' temporal point, which just happens to also be the center of mass.

In other words, it's just a matter of time...

Okay assuming God created the universe/multiverse (whatever), and God also created the laws of physics (not discovered, CREATED); then it stands to reason that this is possible...

If we look at the cultures of the time period where the incident supposedly took place, their methods of time keeping were generally rudimentary at best.

The cultures that generally had more exact forms of measuring time, such as the Mayans, Aztecs, etc. may have recorded something about this happening. (While many other cultures did look to the sky about things they didn't generally pay as close attention to it as the Mayans and Aztecs, the Israelites at the time however were looking for this to happen so they noticed).

The problem with using the lack of records from the Mayans or Aztecs as evidence however is fairly simple, much of their records were destroyed by gold obsessed Spanish fanatics, so it is extremely plausible that those records were lost.