The Sun That Wasn't there

OK here's one that I have never thunk of. Thank god for all the cool and super smart atheist out there like John at Debunking Christianity and the very youthful looking Richard "freekin." Carrier. With the recent demise of my hero, Christopher Hitchens, it is my hope that these two become more prominent in the battles to debunk Christianity and for secular society.

In the gospel(s) of Matt, Luke and Mark they talk about how after dudes crucifixion "there was darkness over the whole world from the sixth hour until the ninth." This "eclipse" of the sun is supposed to be all powerful-n-stuff and a message to humans "hey, y'all fucked up and killed my son." Or as the gospels say "...for the sun stopped shining." This is where beautiful science comes into play.

It is impossible for a black out of the sun for that long. This is the part I have never thought of. We have seen many eclipses, but never one for that long. They usually last a couple of minutes, right. A multi hour eclipse in unheard of and, I'm no biologist and all but, wouldn't a three hour eclipse, like, destroy da erffs and all life on it (yes). The bible claims the sun was blacked out over the whole earth, but that is impossible because, ya know, the earth rotates and it would be impossible for that to happen. Lastly, there were hella astrology types back in the day with hella records-n-stuff, so wouldn't one of them, at least of of them have recorded the fact that the entire earth was blacked out for three whole hours.

I think so, unless of course, it didn't happen.

* Debunking Christianity