[cuban leaf]

I read a book called “The Biblical Flood and the Ice Epoch” a few decades ago that theorises something along these lines happening. Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision” touches on it as well.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

The moon was created by God on the fourth day of creations;

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

So says God in His book the Holy Christian Bible.

[yarddog]

I think it is a fascinating coincidence that the moon and sun both appear to be the same size from the earth. Maybe it was not a coincidence at all.

[dead]

Researchers in Germany have found small but distinctive chemical signatures that suggest the moon formed when a giant planetary body slammed into the early Earth 4.5bn years ago.

That's what I learned as a kid forty years ago.

[GeronL]

It is an interesting theory. The problem is that the surface of the moon is likely covered by the remains of meteorites and stuff that have been hitting it since eternity. The rocks brought back by Apollo missions might not have even gotten any real indigenous rocks from beneath this top layer.

They need to send up a digger probe and find out.

Just my opinion.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The fact that the moon is not revolving so that we can see all sides of it during the course of its revolution means it had to have spun off from Earth.

The chances of their being a "dark side of the moon" is just about nil, otherwise.

[expat2]

I have believed that was a likely possibility for a number of years. I believe the moon was torn out of where the Pacific is, whihch is why Continental drift separated the Americas from Africa (S America) and from Europe (N America).

[Yo-Yo]

Moon created in violent collision with Earth, clues in Apollo rocks suggest.

Glad to see we're finally getting around to looking at those Moon rocks that Apollo brought back.

[ICE-FLYER]

Yet another theory sold and peddled as fact by man!

[SpaceBar]

Thirty years ago I learned of the striking similarties between lunar anorthosites and terrestrial Archean proto-continental chemical signatures. This ain’t new.

[SgtHooper]

“SUGGEST”! That’s the keyword to not knowing for sure. About as definitive as Global Warming.

[Tigen]

Yes and from this we have AIR BUS, ROLEX,Chevrolet, and OBAMA too.
My dog was a 3300 pound mini doxie then and in another trillion years nobody will care.:-( /sarc off

[CdMGuy]

I find it easier to believe that the moon is made of green cheese. So, we are supposed to believed that the moon was created by the collision of two planetary bodies? Yet, somehow the moon essentially is round. Could someone explain to me exactly how that is???

[mikrofon]

[Southack]

A more likely theory is that the Moon was captured, and the asteroid belt could easily be the Moon’s original location.

[Gene Eric]

Is anything of astronomic proportions created peacefully?