Why We Don't Need the Extra Day Theory to Explain Joshua 10 or 2 Kings 20
Missing Day Confirmation Hoax As a young man growing up in an evangelical church, I encountered many examples of apologetic arguments and evidence that claimed to be undeniable “proof” of what the Bible taught. Some of these arguments can be compelling (and indeed they are), while others were… less so. Though as an impressionable youth, even the bad arguments were convincing enough for me. One of these arguments was the “missing day theory”. Perhaps you remember a story that circulated about a NASA scientist who, when performing spaceflight orbital computations, discovered a missing day in his calculations. He turned to his trusty Bible and found the explanation there in book of Joshua where God stopped the sun and the moon from moving in the sky for an entire day during the battle of Gibeon so the Israelites could defeat the Amorites. A similar miracle can be found in 2 Kings 20:8-9 where God performed a sign for king Hezekiah by turning back the sun on the dial by ten steps confi...