ON my way to work today I walked for about a quarter mile... all the while looking up into the morning sky at the Moon. An amazing neighbor so close... sometimes you would think you could touch it. I was thinking what would we do without the moon... would our oceans be huge stagnant sloughs without the tides from the moon? SO I thought I would look up some interesting facts and theories for it's origin and it's purpose...
...and can we live without it?
My first exploration took me on a quandary through the National Geographic's version of the origin of the Moon... and I found a glossy layout, of how the Moon originated as a result of a major collision the Earth had with a Mars size planet. It read so "matter of fact" that one would assume that they were there taking the pictures as it happened...
"The impact was at just the right angle to almost bounce off, but to be captured and swallowed by the Earth. The highly oblique impact struck a glancing blow to the Earth's surface and set up giant shock waves that spalled material into space. The surface of the Earth was heated and may have begun to boil --not just the Oceans, but the rock itself!"
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-01x1......as echoed in this feature in Space Daily, it seems a done deal as to how the Moon got up there in the first place... but is it logical? I mean it doesn't matter how it got there, we can still enjoy it's magnificence... it just seem so tidy and picture perfect, could it really be as a result of a catastrophic collision? WHERE is all the debris, wouldn't there be rings of debris like Saturn? Looking deeper it wasn't just the lack of debris that was the problem with the theory... but lack of facts.
"Evolutionary astronomers have great trouble accounting for the origin of the moon. There have generally been three competing hypotheses, but they all have serious physical problems..."
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v14/i...It would seem that every 10 years or so comes along another Moon origin theory... postulated in grandeur as if it was recorded in real-time on high-def ...only to be debunked along with all the other "scientific" facts. But, what is the alternative? Surely not Creation... even if all the evidence points to a tidy placing of the Moon, we have come too far to recess back into the Dark Ages with mere faith?!? THE thing about true science is that it is observable, not only that is that it accepts evidence not based on bias or popular belief. It is on this basis I forward the following videos that debunk "scientific" theory and postulation.
Our Created Moon, Parts 1-3
http://www.answersingenesis.org/media/vi...There is no Moon like it that we know of... sitting up there equally life preserving as the Sun is life giving. As dependents on the Sun we are also dependents of the Moon, without it life on Earth would cease. Consider timing, orbit, speed and balance... everything including the origin of man, needed to come together in perfect harmony at the same time for it all to work. Just look up and observe
...what the prophets of old have declared from the beginning...
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard." (Psalm 19:1-3)
Truth it would seem, can hardly compete with Holly Wood productions and great documentaries that give you play-by-play "as it happens" on the formation of he world or the Moon. There is NO remaining evidence to support any collision theory, let alone any other theory that has fallen by the wayside... and the more evidence that debunks them,
it would seem less reason to remove them from the textbooks.
The facts don't seem to play as big a part as one would think in modern "science", grants and funding play a huge part with the results, and movie production seems to make up for any lack in substantial evidence.
I as others enjoy a good movie, but there is no substitute for observation...
So, enjoy the Creation first-hand, do your own science experiment... and observe.