by Dr. Robert C. Newman Professor, Biblical Seminary Since 1970
various versions of an exciting "science apologetics" story have
appeared in books, newspapers, and magazines across the U.S. and
beyond. Many people have read the story or heard it and passed
it along to others, thinking it a credible account. As a
Christian and a scientist, I felt an obligation to check out the
story's veracity for myself and to share my findings with
others. My findings will serve, I hope, as both an exhortation
and caution. According to the story, usually entitled "The Space
Program Proves the Bible" or something similar, Harold Hill,
president of Curtis Engineering and a consultant to the space
program, reports that space scientists in Greenbelt, Maryland,
bumped into a big "problem'' when checking their computer data
for future orbital positions of the sun, moon, planets, etc. The
problem supposedly proved to be a missing day somewhere in the
past, a day which one of the religious team members identified
for the unchurched