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To: sagar

“Isn’t it coincidence that there are 60 seconds to a minute and 60 minutes to an hour and a 24 hours to a day and it takes the earth 24 hours to rotate in its axis? All by design.”

No, there is no coincidence at all, and it was all by Man’s design and not the Creator’s design. The Earth’s diurnal rotation was somewhere about 5 hours per day after the formation of the Moon/Luna. This 5 hour rotation has been steadily increasing ever since until it is now 24 hours per one day of rotation. During the days of the Dinosaurs, the rotation rate was about 18 and 19 hours per day. In the future the Earth’s rotation will be 27.62 ours per day. The neat fractional numbering we use today is due to Man’s arbitrary choice of using a decimal numbering system in conjunction with a 360 degree circle instead of the 100 radian degrees. The French Revolutionaries attempted to apply the decimal numbering system to the number of days in a week and more, but reverted to the customary system used today.


8 posted on 03/31/2015 9:30:07 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

Thank you for saying what I was about to type far more clearly than I could have done.


9 posted on 03/31/2015 9:38:25 PM PDT by arbitrary.squid
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To: WhiskeyX; sagar

Look up “highly composite numbers.” The Babylonians and Sumerians achieved excellent results in mathematics and metrology with a base 60 numeral system.

That the Solar System offered astronomical periods that were close to highly composite numbers at the time that human civilization emerged is quite a coincidence.


13 posted on 03/31/2015 9:58:01 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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