Okay, well believing that the sun and the moon were stopped in the sky for a day in Joshua 10 isn’t illogical. An omnipotent God can make this happen easily.
Well I looked Joshua 10 extensively. The original account is not Joshua's, but from the book of Jasher
which is not in the Bible.
Here is the best of that I could find :
www.sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/88.htmIt does not actually itself add any new detail that I could see, and many other accounts
claim that the original book of Jasher is lost, and this is a fraud. I have no way of deciding
that purely on its own terms.
You claim "God can make this happen easily", your own criterion being the "ease" with which
He could do this makes it the true explanation. But the idea that the Sun and Moon stood still
is far more "easily" explained by realizing that leap-years are a Roman (post Jesus) method of
keeping an accurate calendar.
Before Roman times there were an enormous variety of methods used for accurate date-keeping,
the two most common being a solar and a lunar calendar. More advanced peoples for that time
would use both of these because it was the single most important idea to avoid famine by ensuring
that crops were not planted at the wrong time.
After looking at more than 100 websites it is clear that a common practice all over the world is to
add or subtract days to the calendar at important events. Thus Jesus' Crucifixion and the events
in Joshua are prime examples of adjustment to the calendar. The Sun and Moon together
"not moving" would be that they adjusted both the solar and the lunar calendar at this event.
Now lets look at this from a moral perspective.
Religion is here to serve that people care for one another, and to avoid terror like war through
correct morals. There is thus no higher purpose on the earth than to ensure that everyone
has enough to eat by avoiding famine. The most difficult part of this in those times was an accurate
calendar. That is why the likes of Copernicus were primarily tasked with the religious function
of mapping the seasons properly. If 365.24219 days per year is rounded off to 365.25 then after
1000 years there will be a 1 week discrepancy, enough to cause the crops to fail, people to starve,
panic, steal, and kill one another.
That is why astronomy and astrophysics used to be one and the same as religion and morality;
the Greeks called this philosophy. The aTheist who rejects morals is just as sinful as the Theist
who rejects science and philosophy for the sake of fairytale descriptions of God's sacred laws of nature.
Selah!
