> So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to > go down about a whole day.
Now I'm a believing Christian, but this is unfortunately -- as written -- the utterest nonsense. A day, in ancient times certainly, meant one thing only: the space of time during which the sun did something (usually was visible, "daytime"; sometimes, the day+night cycle). Now if the sun stood still, how could that have been for a whole "day"? Unless it suddenly appeared overhead in the middle of the night, then after a while, popped out of the sky with equal suddenness. I'm glad I don't have to design a sundial for that... Bill Thayer
