I dare. My first day here and as usual I see people who think they can decide what happened or what didn't happen in the past just in their heads and not actually hunt for information. Obviously if something so major as to see the sun stop in the sky do to the earth's rotation changing happened, then we should expect to see other cultures also mention the event. See, this is very simple logic. And do we see that? Yes. It's called extra-biblical corroboration. Here's some of them.
1) On the opposite side of the planet a Maya codex mentions the time the sun didn't come up and the length of the morning was extended by about 20 hours. The people thought the world was ending so they started sacrificing, then the sun finally came up.
2) Another culture mentions a time when the sun rose to the horizon, and then sat there a long time and didn't move.
And following are some more from different cultures and you can see how a real event triggers legends and stories to start popping up all over the world (so take note all you who keep denying a global flood). Here are three more that I remember off hand.
3) A woman is trying to dry something (without looking it up I forget exactly what), but there were not enough hours in the day, so somebody throws a lasso around the sun and ties it to a tree to stop the sun in its place. After whatever it is has dried, the sun promises it will move more slowly through the sky and so somebody cuts the rope and the sun continues on its course.
4) A rope is stretched across the sky and the sun gets snagged in it and can't move. The sun starts choking and one person after another tries to cut the rope to free the sun but none are successful. Finally a rat climbs up the rope and chews through the rope freeing the sun to continue on its way. ** Note how a rat is involved. It is believed that probably has to do with a plague that was associated with the sun stopping where there was an infestation of rats, so it was included in the story.
5) A dog crossed the path of the sun causing the sun to baulk. After the dog crossed, the sun continued on its course.
--- About the reversal of the sun's direction
1) In an ancient Chinese astronomical text it was mentioned that the sun moved backwards 3 houses of (I can't remember what term or measurement was used without looking it up, but it would probably equal about the 10 degrees mentioned in the bible)
2) Another legend mentions the sun going down behind the horizon, then popping back up in a backward movement, then it continued on its original course.
You can see from these how an observed event can come down to us in the form of legends or myths. But there is a real event behind these. And you don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Obviously Joshua can't command the sun to stop anymore than you can throw a rope around the sun and tie it to a tree. But the common part to all of these is the sun stopped in the sky for a while and then continued on its course.
So when there are over 500 legends of a flood from every inhabited continent on earth and virtually every culture, then you know damn well there was some kind of flood that affected the whole earth and all people on it. There isn't a single other believable theory to explain all those legends, not to mention a huge boatload of physical evidence showing evidence of a massive flood on all continents including massive animal extinctions in the process. I'll probably start a topic later on and dump a bunch of that evidence here so I can stop listening to two ignorant groups of people keep arguing back and forth.
Oh, and let me point out the hypocrisy. Just as cultures all over the world mention the last world being destroyed by a flood, many also mention the world before that was destroyed when it was covered with ice. How ridiculous that we talk about the ice age and are taught it in school. Using the logic of all these deniers we shouldn't believe these myths, and if the ancient people say the earth was covered in ice we shouldn't believe them anymore than when they say it was covered in water. What the hell, not all cultures say it was covered in ice, so that proves there was no ice age (I'm taking the idiotic logic I just read one of the flood threads).
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