VERNAL EQUINOX.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 12

VERNAL EQUINOX.

Sir, —I wonder how many readers of your article on the above would remember that Scripture confirms the science of time. Planetary motion commenced on the fourtli day of the year 0 of our creation, having equal day and night all over the world. Genesis 1., 14. The revolution of the earth never varies a fraction in accomplishing this solar year of 365 decimal <jays. Thus the vernal equinox is the fourth day of every solar year, and an exact method of measurement for all time. Taking Genesis as our guide every year "Anno Mundi" can bo tabulated to A.M. 5893, which was our September 20,-1894, A.D., and from this we bring all eclipses down with the solar cycle to the present. Tho Grcar. Architect of our solar system gave us a standard of time in Genesis L, 14, for days and years, beginning with the vernal equinox, so it is not possible to push tlio sun out of the zodiac. Much of, this knowledge was known to the Chaldeans about three centuries after the Flood, for a cuneiform tablet of creation in one of 5 our great storehouses, possibly the British Museum, states:—"The constellations, their forms, as animals He fixed. The year, its divisions He divided. Twelve months of constellations by three! He fixed. From the day by which the vear began to its end." x F. W. Riach.