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The Figures Against the Precision of a Total Eclipse are Astronomical
“The precision of the movements of the heavenly bodies is something the ancients keenly observed: the spinning of the earth on its axis gives us a day; the spinning of the moon around the earth gives us a month (waning & waxing); the spinning of both around the sun gives us a year.
“’Interestingly, the moon rotates on its axis at exactly the same rate it takes to rotate around the earth. The effect of this is to cause the moon to appear as if standing still with the same face always pointed towards the earth. Another interesting fact, during a total solar eclipse the size of the Moon is exactly in proportion to block out the Sun, despite the Sun having a diameter 400 times that of the Moon. This is due to the fact that the distance between the Earth and the Sun is 400 times that between the Earth and the Moon. The odds [against this being an accident] are truly astronomical.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas illustrated this with a famous example: place the individual pieces of a stripped don pocket watch in a blanket and throw them up into the air an infinite number of times… they will never come down ticking.
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