In fairness to those who favor a supernatural explanation for things, the fact that the Sun is by no definition on fire, and in fact undergoes a process almost as completely unrelated to fire as a physical process can be, and which is many, many orders of magnitude more energetic than fire, and yet not only seems to primitive senses to be made of fire, but also, no matter how closely you look, looks exactly like it's on fire, does kind of suggest that everything was designed by someone who's really messing with us.

@pieist having the Sun and Moon the exact same size in the sky is another...

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I've often thought the same thing. What's more, that's a relatively temporary situation, coincident with the existence of humans, and seemingly centered on this period of human "civilization". A few tens of millions of years from now, we'll only get annular eclipses.

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