Glenn Grevengoed
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> > From: mskloemp@server.wulaw.wustl.edu (Mark Kloempken)
> > Subject: missing day
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> > Copyright 1991 The New York Times Company
> > The New York Times
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> > May 8, 1991, Wednesday, Late Edition - Final
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> > SECTION: Section C; Page 10; Column 3; Living Desk
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> > LENGTH: 1078 words
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> > HEADLINE: Discussing What Just Isn't True (Is It?)
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> > BYLINE: By KATHERINE BISHOP, Special to The New York Times
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> > DATELINE: OAKLAND, Calif., May 7
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> > BODY:
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> > > .........A recurring theme, Dr. Brunvand said, is the presumption and
> > resolution of
> > the conflict between religion and science, as in "The Missing Day in Time." It
> > has appeared as an anonymous photocopied handout around the country. It
tells of> > NASA scientists calculating the position of the sun, moon and planets in the
past and the future, to plan the orbits of satellites.
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> > Their computer signals a problem: an entire day is missing from history. A
> > religious scientist directs them to two passages in the Bible in which God makes
> > the sun stand still, accounting for the missing day. Using modern technology,
> > the doubting scientists inadvertently back the Bible.
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> > Professor Brunvand and others have traced the story to a military instructor
> > at Yale in the 1890's who contended that astronomers had calculated the
> > missing day. "It is still being continually recreated in oral and printed
> > tradition," Dr. Brunvand said............
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