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PACIFIC MERIDIAN PUBLISHING Co.
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FIRST EDITION 1973
To our parents:
Richard V. Hatch
E. Lottie Hatch
Eugene P. Patten
Ella D. Patten
Kenneth W. Steinhauer
Evangeline G. Steinhauer
The year 1973 has been designated Copernican Year in honor of 500th anniversary of the birth of Copernicus in 1473. In keeping with this commemoration, this book is presented.
THIS IS TO EXPRESS OUR THANKS to those friends who have given so much help and encouragement with this book. We owe much to:
Dennis W. Burrowes, secretary of the Evolution Protest Movement, North America, in literary consultation in this production.
Ralph T. Chang, consultant in mathematics and computer programming for research on the behavior of planet orbits under catastrophic conditions.
C. W. DeCeault, physicist and mathematician, consultant in celestial mechanics.
Leslie Garcia, artist for the jacket cover artwork.
Charles McDowell, geographer and historian, consultant in the intermesh of catastrophism with archaeological and historical materials.
Wiliam I. Thompson III, astrogeophysicist and science librarian, in consultation regarding current technical science publications pertaining to catastrophism.
Emma G. Hale, editor of the Chieftain Press and tecnnical production consultant in this production.
Maureen J. Wesseler, literary consultant in this project.
Patten, Hatch and Steinhauer's work on catastrophism comes to the market place in an age when the accepted ideas of cosmology (astronomical history of the solar system) have been exposed as being partially unsound. Increasingly, as data is gathered by the space age probes and research of the Moon, Venus, Mars and other planets, evidence is mounting that the inner part of the solar system has been exposed to interplanetary catastrophes. It has not had a history of unbroken celestial peace, or functional isolation.
Authorities now quarrel about the meaning of the new data. Everyone should be encouraged. Historically, similar periods of dissension allowed real academic progress by permitting new thinkers and new thoughts to supply the requirements for a new balance of ideas.
Ours is a period of academic flux with innumerable breaches in the established systems of thought. Patten, Hatch and Steinhauer have provided a theoretical framework by which we are able to approach the reconstruction of past events.
We have been conditioned to believe that we cannot know the truth in the natural realm unless we can compare an idea with the most exact experience which can be observed today. These three authors, however, compare the observable in nature today, and the scars of the solar system from the past, with what was observed, experienced and reported by ancient man. In this methodology, a new validity is given to historical observations. I venture to say that in a decade, this methodology will be widespread.
Charles McDowell
Ph.D -- Semitic Studies
Chairman, Department of Geography
History and Political Science,
Western Campus
Cuyahoga Community College
Parma, Ohio
July 1973
THE LONG DAY OF JOSHỦA AND SIX OTHER CATASTROPHES should become a landmark in fields such as ancient history, biblical exegesis, cosmology, geophysics and solar system astrophysics. In the following pages, a panoramic picture of seven astronomical cataclysms, which besieged the Earth in the era 2500 B.C. to 701 B.C., will be explained.
The authors consider the historical, physical and religious contexts during which the Earth underwent major upheavals caused by the planet Mars a Mars in a different orbit from its present-day orbit. The eight events considered in detail are:
The Noachian Flood....(circa 2500 B.C.)
The Tower of Babel Catastrophe....(1930 B.C.)
The Sodom-Gomorrah Catastrophe....(1877 B.C.)
The Exodus Catastrophe....(1447 B.C.)
The Long Day of Joshua....(1404 B.C.)
The Greater Davidic Catastrophe....(972 B.C.)
The Joel-Amos Catastrophe....(756 B.C.)
The Isaiahic Catastrophe....(701 B.C.)
It is postulated that each of these events, with the exception of the Noachian Flood, was caused by a close approach, or fly-by, by the planet Mars which was in a resonant orbit with the Earth.
Resonance phenomena in planetary orbits have only been recently discovered. Basically the motions of two planets or satellites can couple together so that the ratio of their orbital periods has the value of p/q where p and q are small integers. This kind of coupling also occurs between the spin of one body and the orbital motion of another. Two examples of resonance are the orbital coupling between Neptune and Pluto, and the capture resonance of the Asteroid 1685 Toro and Earth. In the present book, a mode of an ancient orbital relationship between Mars and the Earth is developed which postulates a 2:1 resonance orbit for Mars' orbit and Earth's orbit.
The many facets of these catastrophes included: depopulation, crustal tides and Earth shocks, oceanic and magma tides, renewed vulcanism, incoming meteors and bolides, orbital shifts (resulting in calendaric problems) and spin axis shifts (resulting in shifts in latitude and tilt). Among the historical and literary results were cosmic imagery in ancient literatures, origins of astrology, the Atlantis story of Plato, and interest in planet deities.
Several major conclusions are derived from this work:
However, it should be emphasized that THE LONG DAY OF JOSHUA AND SIX OTHER CATASTROPHES describes only a limited amount of historical, physical and spiritual truth. It is the authors' desire that this book be an aid to the seeker after truth to discover an intimate and vital relationship with the one who said, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
Wiliam I. Thompson, III
M.S. - Astrogeophysics
U.S. Department of Transportation
Cambridge, Massachusetts
June 1973
CATASTROPHISM has experienced a 100 year period of hard times as the evolutionary-uniformitarian view rapidly assumed command in the philosophy of natural history. It is like a forest, having experienced a forest fire, with the fauna and flora almost being obliterated. But in sufficient time in the forest, a new and perhaps slightly different regime sprouts forth and prospers. So it is with catastrophism. A decade ago, dozens of writers were beginning to assert the catastrophic philosophy in an authoritative manner. In this decade, hundreds of authors and lecturers are following suit in a variety of ways. During the next decade, this will expand to thousands, possibly tens of thousands of authors, lecturers and teachers.
Authors and lecturers approach catastrophism from a wide variety of ways. Some are closely related to the Biblical faith, and some are not. Some are based on ancient literary or archaeological sources for data. Some are based on geographical or geological data. Some approaches are based on astronomical or physical data for principles. Variety in catastrophism is healthy, but can be unstructured. Catastrophism can be seen as a cohesion of a series of spectacular ancient events. Or it can be presented as a series of very interesting, but isolated and unrelated events.
In this work, after considerable research in team effort, we present a UNIFIED THEORY OF ANCIENT CATASTROPHISM. In biology, the whole is considered more than the sum of the parts. Our understanding is to present a cohesiveness between the series of ancient upheavals, a unified theory. We believe we have succeeded.
Donald W. Patten was born in Conrad, Montana, in 1929. He attended the University of Montana (1947-1950) and the University of Washington (1950-1952, 1961-1962). He holds the B.A. (1952) and M.A. (1962) degrees in Geography at the University of Washington. His minor was in history.
He is an author, editor and lecturer. His first and major work was “The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch" (1966) for which the work in hand is a sequel. He is the editor of the Symposium on Creation series for Baker Book House (and Pacific Meridian). Among his essays are “The Noachian Flood and Mountain Uplifts” and “The Ice Epoch” in “Symposium on Creation I” and “The Greenhouse Effect” in “Symposium on Creation II.” He is a lecturer on themes relating to catastrophism, and his most successful lecture has been reproduced in the filmstrip “Cataclysm From Space 2800 B.C.” by American Media. This was based on a slide-illustrated lecture given at the New England Rally for God, Family and Country, July 4, 1970, in Boston.
He is married and has seven children. He is the owner of a successful microfilm service bureau in Seattle. Among his hobbies are umpiring Little League baseball, “one-on-one" basketball and chess. He is a member of the Evergreen Baptist Church in Seattle.
Ronald R. Hatch was born in Freedom, Oklahoma, in 1938. His early schooling was in western Kansas and Oklahoma, and at Sunnyside, Washington. He received a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Seattle Pacific College (1962). He directed the operations of the Satellite Tracking Exhibit, located in the U.S. Science Pavilion at the Seattle World's Fair. He has taken graduate work in mathematics at the University of Maryland.
Mr. Hatch has been employed as an associate physicist at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University (1963-1965), where he participated in the development of computer programs required in the Navy Navigational Satellite System. He was employed as a senior engineer in the Space Division of the Boeing Company (1965-1970) where his duties included orbital analysis. He is currently employed as a software supervisor with the Magnavox Research Laboratories, Los Angeles, where his duties include computer program development for satellite-based navigation equipment.
He is married and has six children. His hobbies include chess and tennis. He is a member of the University Bible Church, Los Angeles, California.
Loren C. Steinhauer was born in Eugene, Oregon, in 1944. He holds a B.S. (1966), M.S. (1967) and Ph.D. (1970) in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Washington.
He is employed as a theorist at Mathematical Sciences Northwest, Inc. of Seattle. He has served as Acting Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, and Instructor at both Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, having taught courses in aerodynamics, orbital mechanics and applied mathematics. His primary research thrust has been on laser interaction with plasmas, in which he has a half dozen technical publications.
Since 1970 he has devoted considerable study to catastrophic themes, primarily from the viewpoint of gravitational and orbital mechanics. Among his publications are “Out of Whose Womb Came the Ice?”, in “Symposium on Creation IV”; “Tracing the Past -- Is Uniformity Meaningful” and “The Case For Global Catastrophism”, both scheduled for “Symposium on Creation V”, for 1974.
Dr. Steinhauer and his family reside in Seattle where he has served as Sunday school superintendent at Evergreen Baptist Church. His hobbies include chess and mountain climbing.
I. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED YEARS OF CATASTROPHISM
II. ANCIENT COSMOLOGIES OF NON-HEBREW CIVILIZATIONS
III. THE ISAIAHIC CATASTROPHE AND HISTORY
IV. THE ISAIAHIC CATASTROPHE AND SCIENCE
V. THE JOEL-AMOS CATASTROPHE
VI. CATASTROPHES OF THE DAVIDIC ERA
VII. THE LONG DAY OF JOSHUA
VII. THE EXODUS CATASTROPHE
IX. THE SODOM-GOMORRAH CATASTROPHE
X. THE TOWER OF BABEL CATASTROPHE
XI. THE TWO MYSTERIOUS MOONS OF MARS: DEIMOS AND PHOBOS
XII. THE FLOOD CATASTROPHE
"The Long Day of Joshua and
Six Other Catastrophes" by Patten,
Hatch & Steinhauer
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