Hello
all my fine friends!
Well be finally have winter weather settling in. We had a
winter snow storm over the weekend (great for setting the Christmas mood),
which has now melted leaving muddy and dripping. But I don’t mind, we certainly
need the moisture and my horse has fun kicking up his heels and flinging mud
everywhere!
There is a theory that secular
scientists have formulated that is similar to the mud flinging off of my horse’s
hooves (fission) that is proposed to explain the moon’s origins. It is called the
lunar-origin fission theory. Basically it states that the moon formed out of
materials from the earth that were flung off, much like the mud flings off of
my horse’s hooves. Some scientists who believe in this theory even say the huge
ocean crevices are proof of the earth lost some of its materials, suggesting
this ‘lost’ material then formed the moon. Well, could it be possible God used
this natural law to form the moon? After all He did form Adam out of dust, why
not the moon?
It
sounds good, but there are several intrinsic problems. A moon that had split
off from the earth would more than likely have been launched from the equator region
(just like mud from a tire flies off at the greatest centrifugal force in the middle/outer
most region), therefore we would expect the moon to be circling the earth
around the equator. However, anyone can look outside and see the moon does not
do this. Instead, its orbit is slanted between 18 to 28 degrees. Hence the
reason it appears higher or lower in the sky, depending on the season.
Another
reason this theory does not work is that the earth does not rotate fast enough to
fling material out of its gravitational pull (thank goodness!). Well, you may
be thinking, what if at one time the earth did
rotate faster-like in the ‘beginning’. First of all there is no evidence of
that, but let’s just say this did happen, the earth in the beginning spun so
fast it flung off huge chucks of rocks
and dirt. Now we have another problem. In the process of these huge chunks of
debris breaking away from earth’s gravity, our planet’s gravity would have crushed
the material to such a degree that it would resemble Saturn's rings rather than
a moon.
And
finally, our explorations to the moon should have resulted in throwing out this
theory for once and for all. When the astronauts went to the moon they brought
back quite a bit of moon material (rock, dust, etc). After examining these
items from the moon, scientists concluded that the moon rocks are not the same
as the equivalent material on earth. Well, it the materials are different, then
they couldn’t have come from the same source! 
Learn more about our moon, the
closest celestial object to us, next week! Until then…
God Bless and take care!
Willow Dressel
This week in the sky: “The
first-discovered asteroid, 1 Ceres, is at opposition tonight [December 17th].
It's not far from 4 Vesta, which is also in Taurus along with Jupiter. Ceres
and Vesta are now magnitudes 6.7 and 6.5, respectively. Spot them in binoculars
near the horns of Taurus…” Also, Friday December 21 is the winter solstice
marking the shortest daylight hours of the year!
References:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/1997/11/05/astronomy-bible Astronomy
and the Bible Selected Questions and Answers Excerpted from the Book Astronomy and the Bible by Donald B.
DeYoung November 5, 1997
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