Posted on 01/28/2022 10:06:47 AM PST by Red Badger
Which requires the second statement:
The tidal interactions between Earth and the Moon are actually pushing the satellite further away from our planet, not closer. The Moon was created by the debris launched into orbit when a world the size of Mars hit Earth. The Moon actually recedes from us at a rate of 3.8 centimeters (1.5 inches) per year, but this speed has not been constant since its formation.
For it is was uniform then 1.5 inches per year for 4.5 billion years ago would mess up the earth real bad (trying sound scientific).
Based on today’s rate of recession, the moon would have been touching the earth about 1.5 billion years ago...mathematics dictates that the recession rate would have been much higher in the past, when the moon was closer to the earth. About the only way to get a slower rate is to invoke different physical conditions in the past. This is the preferred explanation among secular scientists. They claim that today’s recession rate is abnormally high... Some anti-creationist websites claim these models support much slower recession rates in the past. But that’s possible only by making a set of assumptions. For example, to reduce tidal friction (and thus reduce the recession rate), these models require the earth’s landmass to be distributed much differently than it is today.
More: https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/moon/inching-away-old-earth/
Sumerian tablets claim that there was a planet between Mars and Jupiter that was struck by yet another planet. This broke the planet apart resulting in the Earth and Moon which stabilized in its current orbit. That’s a good a guess as any and didn’t take billions of dollars to come up with.
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