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THE LONG DAY OF JOSHUA
And Six Other Catastrophes

...is a fascinating study of catastrophism in ancient times before 700 B.C. This study has been acclaimed as one of the most startling and important scientific concepts of the 20th Century.

The reader is presernted with overwhelming evidence that, for an era of 1700 years, another planet (Mars) repeatedly, or cyclically, made a close fly-by near (or through) the Earth- Moon system. The cycle of ancient near fly-bys averaged once every 54 years.

The fact emerges that the Biblical story of the Long Day of Joshua, far from being an impossible myth, is an accurate, historical account of an event that really happened -- an event that can well be described as A PRECESSION OF THE EARTH'S PLANETARY SPIN AXIS.

Men from many locations on the Earth reported that the Sun departed from its normal path across the heavens, as did the Moon. A contemporary scientist might explain this event as a relocated North Pole, along with a re-tilted spin axis. These are both part of the spin axis precession phenomena.

It would be difficult to have an informed discussion on such topics as ANCIENT HISTORY, RELIGION or COSMOLOGY itself without some knowledge of the facts and theories in this provocative book.

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DONALD W. PATTEN
is a geographer, historian and author. His best selling book is The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch (1966), which material is also in film form in the filmstrip, "Cataclysm From Space 2800 B.C." He also edits the Symposium on Creation paperback series.

RONALD R. HATCH
is a mathematician, physicist and orbital analyst. His duties include computer program development for satellite-based navigation equipment. He participated in the development of computer programs required in the Navy Navigational Satellite System.

LOREN C. STEINHAUER
is a theorist for Mathematical Sciences Northwest Inc. of Seattle. He has taught courses in aerodynamics, orbital mechanics and applied mathematics at Harvard University, Massachusetts lInstitute of Technology and the University of Washington.