Debunk 360 Day Long Year Concept by OP Armstrong 4/15

Why Debunk??

There is an erroneous concept that

around the time of Noah, one earth year was 360 days, or so
I was told in 4 instances by Christian writers. A Mr. Koenig
emailed saying, and there is no way to prove otherwise.
This is true if one does not accept the laws of physics. Thus
this writing is for those who accept that physics and science
provide the basis to understand nature. A refutation is seen
in Rotational Time or Year Length stability.
The misguided 360 year concept originated in extrapolation
of Gen.8:3-4. There it counts 150 days in first 5 months of a
year. Any number of calendar systems could be used
whereby the first 5 months of a year would be 150 days.
However scripture was silent about the remaining 7
months. A normal year or return is 12 months. However
to presume the remaining 7 months of that year were also
complete in 210 days is flawed guessing. The residual
portion of a solar year always is 365.2425 less 150 days or
215.2425 days. A look at ancient observational methods
and calendars explains these points. There are many
calendar systems that could be used to deal with the
residual days. For example the Hebrew calendar in a leap
year or use a system of 30 day months with leap weeks.
Looking at the physics, there simply is not enough fusible
solar mass to change the solar year by 5.25 days. Also even
if done, to burn several billion years of material in one or 2
thousand year would cook off earths atmosphere. There is
no atmosphere on Venus or Mercury due to the solar heat.
At the right are quotes and links to Astronomers who have
discussed this issue in great detail.

From Astronomers
Above, we said that in 100 years, the Sun's mass will
decrease by 6.6 parts in a trillion. Therefore, the orbital
separation of the planet will increase by 6.6 parts in a
trillion and the orbital period will increase by 13.2 parts
in a trillion. If the planet in question is the Earth (whose
orbital separation from the Sun is around 150,000,000
kilometers and whose orbital period is 1 year), the
Earth-Sun separation will increase by about 1 meter, and
the orbital period will increase by about 0.4
milliseconds! Neither of these values is large enough for
us to be able to detect.
Overall, I think it is safe to conclude that (a) there will be
no noticeable effect on the planets' orbits over anything
resembling a human lifetime, and (b) there will be a
noticeable effect over timescales approaching the
lifetime of the Sun, since the Sun will lose around 0.07%
of its mass over that time period, leading to a change in
the Earth's orbital period of about half a day.
about 1 M-yr. the perihelion distance will have
increased by only 0.22- 0.25 AU,
The sun's lifetime has an approximate value of 10
billion years. If the mass of the star has a fractional
decrease , then the linear dimensions of a planet's
orbit have a fractional increase , and the orbital period
has a fractional increase 2. the present recession will
only put Earth at 1.0075 AU in 7.5 Billion year.
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Chronology of Noah and Flood from Scripture using Julian Day Numbers & CHC
Ref
Gen8:13
Gen7:4,10
Gen8:4
Gen7:11
Gen7:12
Gen8:4
Gen8:5
8:6-7
Gen8:10
8:10-11
Gen8:12
Gen8:13
Gen8:14

Gregorian Age HebrewMo DOW Julian Day

Event
29Feb2345BC Niss01/1416 Tues 864990.5 1st Day Noes 600 Year
05Apr2345BC
Iyy10
Sat 865026.5 Start bring Animal Into Ark at sunset
12Apr2345BC
Iyy14
Wed 865033.5 Midweek Filing Ark for 7day, 150day Before
15Apr2345BC
Iyy17
Sat 865036.5 Flood Start 600 year Noes 2nd month, day17
25May2345BC
Sivn28
Thur 865076.5 End 40 Days of Flooding
09Sep2345BC
Tish17
Sat 865183.5 7thmo 17thday ark rest 150day after receded
22Nov2345BC
Tev01
Wed 865257.5 1st Day 10th MO Mountain Tops Seen
01Jan2344BC
Shev12
Mon 865297.5 +40Day Raven out flying about unto dry YLT
05Mar2344BC
V'dar15
Mon 865360.5 Send dove when dry face earth it returns
12Mar2344BC
V'dar22
Mon 865367.5 Dove gets olive branch H2O receded
19Mar2344BC
V'dar29
Mon 865374.5 3rd Dove not return
20Mar2344BC Niss01/1417 Tues 865375.5 Noes 601Year on 1st mo 1st day ground dry
15May2344BC Iyy27.1417 Tues 865431.5 601yr 2month 27day earth dry

day
0
36
43
46
86
193
267
307
370
377
384
385
441

Chronology above shows by use of Calculated Hebrew Calendar, CHC, the end of the 150 day 5 month
period is a difference of 193 days from start. The end of Hebrew year 1416AM is at 385 days from start.
Thus is yet 192 days unto end of year 1416AM from end of 150 day 5 month period. Check: 385= 192+193. The
length of a CHC long leap year is 385 days. So by CHC in this flood year there is not a 360 day long year.
Another calendar alternative is to use the Leap Weeks. A reasonable drift is had by using 12 months, 30
days each, and 3 leap weeks per 4 years. Many other more accurate constructs with leap weeks have
been proposed. So having one 5 month span of 150 days does NOT prove nor make the year length to be
360 days. It just indicates a calendar construction framework. Ditto for any 360 day year calendars.
Gapping from a 360 day orbit to 365.2425 day long year is a physical impossibility. The total sun mass
available to burn is about 0.07% over an estimated 7 billion year sun life. Astronomers say this mass burn
will only change orbit time by day. There is not enough usable sun mass change to drop 5 days.
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