Perspicacia para comprender las Escrituras admite que una combinación de posiciones lunares y planetarias como las registradas en los diarios astronómicos ‘would not be duplicated again in thousands of years’ y que los diarios concuerdan con el canon de Tolomeo, pero responde que ‘accuracy in astronomy does not prove accuracy in history’, porque los años de reinado asociados a las observaciones podrían ser un error de un escriba posterior.

Insight on the Scriptures, Volume 1, “Chronology”

1988 · p.456 · under “Astronomical Calculations” · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Simply stated, accuracy in astronomy does not prove accuracy in history.”

The principle is illustrated with a worked example: an ancient scribe might correctly record a celestial event that modern computation confirms for 465 B.C.E., yet be “entirely wrong” in calling that year the 21st year of King Xerxes. The same section acknowledges that a combination of lunar and planetary positions “would not be duplicated again in thousands of years”, and that the astronomical diaries “appear to coincide with the figures given in Ptolemy’s canon”.

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