Originally Posted by Sargeman

Along the lines of the Moth story, I read a story many many years ago the lunar landing was also a form of evidence against evolution.

Apparantly the belief was that there would be many feet of moon dust on the surface of the moon over the millions of years of stuff crashing into the moon. So they put those circular things (kind of like snow shoes) on the legs of the lander so when the it landed it wouldn't sink to deep into the moondust. Then much to their (NASA) disbelief the moondust was only a few inches thick.

I don't know if it's true or not but that story has been stuck in my head for a while now.