Cofty,
It's just too easy to find numerical patterns wherever we look for them.
I didn't find them. They were pointed out to me by several different atheistic astronomers, all writing different articles about solar eclipses. Read some of these articles for yourself. They all use phrases like "in a coincidence unmatched in the solar system" and "in a serendipitous relationship unlike any other in nature" our earth just happens to have a sun exactly 400 times the size of our moon and also about 400 times as far away.
Just as an example you make the point that the moon's diameter is 400 times smaller than the sun. So what?
Maybe you should ask all the astronomers who write all those articles about solar eclipses that question.
Apart from anything else Jesus specified what the signs in sun moon and stars would be.
I guess I must have missed that part of the Bible.
you have quoted a lot of information that you then go on to reject. Perhaps you could state succinctly what points you do find compelling.
The reason I referenced Knight and Butlers book, Who Built The Moon?, is not because I found all of their arguments that the moon must have been inteligently designed to be convincing. I referenced their book to show that even some atheists believe that the moon must have been inteligently designed, due mainly to the 400s which all astronomers admit appear readily to their minds every time they see a solar eclipse. Those are the same points that I find most compelleng. 400 X diameter + 400 X distance produces solar elipses. Which appear on average over any one spot on earth "about every 400 years." That along with the sun and full moon's relative brightness, a virtually exact 400,000 figure. These things taken together with the Bible's frequently using the numbers 4, 40 and 400 in symbolic reference to Christ. .... And Bible chronology indicating that exactly 4,000 years passed between Adam and Christ.
