Proposal
Greg Jorgensen P. Eng. Independent Scholar
Keywords: Bible 360 day year
perfect lunar month
Genesis 1:14 signs seasons days and years
shrinking Earth
Earth crossing planet
SCIENCE OF A 360 DAY YEAR
This presentation is made in hopes of finding fellow scientists, astronomers, geologists, and engineers who would like to percent a violable case for a 360 day year.
Genesis 1:14 “Let there be lights in the firmament … and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:” If the earth was created with a 360 day year and an exact 12 month year and an exact 30 day month then Genesis 1:14 certainly makes sense.
To make a perfect 12 – 30 day month 360 day year with a perfect full Moon the 15th of every month and a new Moon at the beginning of every month, a combination of the following scenarios would have to happen: 1) The Earth’s rotation would have to speed up to 365.24 days per year from the created 360 day year. Young Earth Creationists should not believe that the Earth was created as a molten ball of rock, and took millions or billions of years to cool to today’s temperature, rather, we should believe that the Earth was created cool and ready for liquid oceans and life. It has since cooled further and either reached equilibrium or is still cooling. This can be shown by the fact that if the Earth cooled the crust would buckle as it shrinks. There should be evidence that the crust is buckling by shrinking (mid Atlantic ridge is one example). If a spherical body experiences thermal contraction its rotation speeds up. An example is a twirling figure skater as they bring their arms in, they twirl faster. It can be calculated that the Earth would have to cool down about 1000 OC for its radius to shrink about 93 Km to speed up from 360 to 365.24 days per year (see calculation sheet). This is where a geologist is required. There must be plenty of evidence that the Earth is shrinking, or has shrunk in the past. A rapidly shrinking Earth would also help explain why the whole Earth was flooded as the ocean depths would increase. If the Earth’s interior density increased and the crusts density decreased, this would also result in a faster rotation so it was probably a combination of shrinkage and density distribution. Dr. Baumgardner’s computer modeling clearly shows how this density distribution increased with depth thus Earth’s rotation would increase (see his 1994 paper reference).
2) The Moon’s orbit would have to move out from the Earth making todays 13.3 revolutions per year exactly 13 revolutions per year. (Fig. 1) This would mean that the Moon would have to have a 391,878 km orbital radius around the Earth. (see calculation sheet)
Today’s Moon has an elliptical orbit around the Earth with the Apogee (furthest distance from Earth) at 405,500 km and the Perigee (closet distance to Earth) at 363,300 km. As can be seen at 13 revolutions per year, the distance is right in between this. Perhaps God created the Moon with a perfect circular orbit. This is where this paper needs some astronomical modelling to see what could have moved the Moon into a circular orbit. Figure 2 shows a likely possibility.
There is plenty of biblical and secular evidence that the Earth-Moon system has been altered in the past. Just to name a few (see fig 2):
- The flood
- JOSHUA’s long day
- Sun goes back 10 steps during Hezekiah’s reign
- The magi’s finding of the baby Jesus
- A three-hour eclipse at Jesus’s death
3) The Earth-Moon system would have to move closer to the sun; then the Moon would also get closer to a perfect 13 revolutions per year cycle. This was covered in detail in the published article (first reference below).
It’s quite feasible to believe that it’s a little bit of all the above scenarios. Astronomical orbital models are required.
References
Baumgardner John R. Computer Modeling Of The Large-Scale Tectonics Associated With The Genesis Flood, Proceedings of the third International Conference on Creationism 1994 pp 52 Thermal Expansion Graph, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Creation Science Fellowship.
Jorgensen Greg The Canopy, The Moon, The Tilt of Earth’s Axis, And a pre-flood Ice Age, Proceedings of the third International Conference on Creationism 1994 pp 287-301 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Creation Science Fellowship.
Wikipedia all Earth, Moon info and formulas. All values and formulas cross checked with Abell, G.O. Morrison, D. & Wolff, S.C. Exploration of the Universe, 1987, Saunders College,
Keywords
Bible 360 day year perfect lunar month Genesis 1:14 signs seasons days and years shrinking Earth Earth crossing planet
Submission Type
Oral Presentation
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Exploration of a 360 Day Year
Greg Jorgensen P. Eng. Independent Scholar
Keywords: Bible 360 day year
perfect lunar month
Genesis 1:14 signs seasons days and years
shrinking Earth
Earth crossing planet
SCIENCE OF A 360 DAY YEAR
This presentation is made in hopes of finding fellow scientists, astronomers, geologists, and engineers who would like to percent a violable case for a 360 day year.
Genesis 1:14 “Let there be lights in the firmament … and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:” If the earth was created with a 360 day year and an exact 12 month year and an exact 30 day month then Genesis 1:14 certainly makes sense.
To make a perfect 12 – 30 day month 360 day year with a perfect full Moon the 15th of every month and a new Moon at the beginning of every month, a combination of the following scenarios would have to happen: 1) The Earth’s rotation would have to speed up to 365.24 days per year from the created 360 day year. Young Earth Creationists should not believe that the Earth was created as a molten ball of rock, and took millions or billions of years to cool to today’s temperature, rather, we should believe that the Earth was created cool and ready for liquid oceans and life. It has since cooled further and either reached equilibrium or is still cooling. This can be shown by the fact that if the Earth cooled the crust would buckle as it shrinks. There should be evidence that the crust is buckling by shrinking (mid Atlantic ridge is one example). If a spherical body experiences thermal contraction its rotation speeds up. An example is a twirling figure skater as they bring their arms in, they twirl faster. It can be calculated that the Earth would have to cool down about 1000 OC for its radius to shrink about 93 Km to speed up from 360 to 365.24 days per year (see calculation sheet). This is where a geologist is required. There must be plenty of evidence that the Earth is shrinking, or has shrunk in the past. A rapidly shrinking Earth would also help explain why the whole Earth was flooded as the ocean depths would increase. If the Earth’s interior density increased and the crusts density decreased, this would also result in a faster rotation so it was probably a combination of shrinkage and density distribution. Dr. Baumgardner’s computer modeling clearly shows how this density distribution increased with depth thus Earth’s rotation would increase (see his 1994 paper reference).
2) The Moon’s orbit would have to move out from the Earth making todays 13.3 revolutions per year exactly 13 revolutions per year. (Fig. 1) This would mean that the Moon would have to have a 391,878 km orbital radius around the Earth. (see calculation sheet)
Today’s Moon has an elliptical orbit around the Earth with the Apogee (furthest distance from Earth) at 405,500 km and the Perigee (closet distance to Earth) at 363,300 km. As can be seen at 13 revolutions per year, the distance is right in between this. Perhaps God created the Moon with a perfect circular orbit. This is where this paper needs some astronomical modelling to see what could have moved the Moon into a circular orbit. Figure 2 shows a likely possibility.
There is plenty of biblical and secular evidence that the Earth-Moon system has been altered in the past. Just to name a few (see fig 2):
- The flood
- JOSHUA’s long day
- Sun goes back 10 steps during Hezekiah’s reign
- The magi’s finding of the baby Jesus
- A three-hour eclipse at Jesus’s death
3) The Earth-Moon system would have to move closer to the sun; then the Moon would also get closer to a perfect 13 revolutions per year cycle. This was covered in detail in the published article (first reference below).
It’s quite feasible to believe that it’s a little bit of all the above scenarios. Astronomical orbital models are required.
References
Baumgardner John R. Computer Modeling Of The Large-Scale Tectonics Associated With The Genesis Flood, Proceedings of the third International Conference on Creationism 1994 pp 52 Thermal Expansion Graph, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Creation Science Fellowship.
Jorgensen Greg The Canopy, The Moon, The Tilt of Earth’s Axis, And a pre-flood Ice Age, Proceedings of the third International Conference on Creationism 1994 pp 287-301 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Creation Science Fellowship.
Wikipedia all Earth, Moon info and formulas. All values and formulas cross checked with Abell, G.O. Morrison, D. & Wolff, S.C. Exploration of the Universe, 1987, Saunders College,