{"id":4284,"date":"2007-08-28T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/08\/eclipse-2\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T12:15:00","slug":"eclipse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/08\/eclipse-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019ve now had the privilege of witnessing total eclipses of both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williams.edu\/astronomy\/eclipse\/eclipse1999\/1999total\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">sun<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov\/eclipse\/LEmono\/TLE2007Aug28\/TLE2007Aug28.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">moon<\/a> during optimal viewing conditions. Although solar eclipses are somewhat more spectacular, watching the earth\u2019s shadow move across the moon was still a great experience \u2013 as was hearing our neighborhood screech owl\u2019s reaction, and getting a better view of the Pleiades than I had before.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the dismay I felt hearing a Baptist preacher in Romania claim that the 1999 eclipse was a \u201csupernatural event\u201d, and that if it had been a natural event, it would never have gotten light again. 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