you haven't heard of velikovski and the near collision of earth with venus as an explanation for the flood?
and we even had ted holden here for a while
see
http://www.bearfabrique.org/http://www.varchive.org/
The simplest possible interpretation of what Hesiod, Plato, Ovid, and numerous others are claiming is that Jupiter and Saturn very recently comprised a small double star system, and that we were part of that system. The flood and the various cosmic disasters you read about in ancient literature amount to descriptions of the mayhem which ensued as that elder system was captured by our present sun and the component bodies began to orbit the sun separately.
but even if
that happened it wouldn't stop the earth from rotating (or to reverse it)
the problem with this is that there is no "handle" by which to cause the spinning to stop, no force that can act without some physical interaction, such as collision with another planet (
"When Worlds Collide" - an old (1933?) SF story?), and if this happens the rotation issue will be the least of anyones worries.
we are limited in our ability to understand
by our ability to understand
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