I find NASA's response a bit puzzling: "The major dynamical component of any planet's orbital motion is determined by solving an equation (force is equal to the mass times the acceleration) which is the perhaps the most fundamental in classical physics. The validity and predictive power of this equation are well documented and can be seen every day: a recent example is the lunar eclipse that was visible to much of the world last Sunday. This calculation would not cover any time before the present, so some missing day many centuries ago, if it had occurred, could not be uncovered with this method."
If the calculation works for the present and future time, it should work just as well for times past.
I do believe NASA explains it much better with the next line: "In general, trying to prove events that are said to have occurred in the Bible, using scientific principles, doesn't work."
Although they should have stated, "...things that occurred in the Bible..."
God doesn't need the laws of physics.
