Jeff Bone writes:
> Sorry, here goes: it's an "urban legend" popular especially among Southern protestants
> that NASA had to make adjustments in its orbital calculations for the (IIRC) cislunar
> portion of the trip to accomodate the "fact" that the Earth's motion (rotation,
> actually, not revolution) was halted via divine intervention for some period of time,
> according to some biblical story.
>
> This is, of course, entirely false. To their credit, some xian fundamentalists disclaim
> the story. According to the Google:
>
> http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs/1117.asp
I believe these people are in the same demographic that believes
men have one fewer rib than women -- showing an undaunted faith
in both biblical literalism and Lamarckian inheritance.
______________________________
Gordon Mohr - gojomo@bitzi.com
CTO, Bitzi - http://bitzi.com
Personal - http://xavvy.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Apr 29 2001 - 20:26:07 PDT