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Old 02-13-2005, 01:02 PM   #42 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Rekna
Evolution takes a lot of time (billions of years).

The moon is recieding from the earth at a fixed rate. around 50,000 years ago the moon would have been touching the earth.
The moon currently moves away from the Earth at a hefty 3.82±0.07 cm/year. The current Earth-Moon distance is 38,440,000,000 cm (384400 km). If we boldly assume that this rate of recession has held constant for 4,500,000,000 years, the moon would have moved 17,190,000,000 cm, about 44.7% of the overall distance. This does not seem at all consistent with the creationist claim, which would have the moon sitting on Miami.

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The sun is shrinking (about 5 feet a day or something like that).
The sun is neither shrinking nor expanding at any observable rate. The false claim is carelessly based on the premise of a paper that was once read as a meeting abstract, but was withdrawn by the authors before publication, when they discovered that they were in error. It's bad enough that the creationist argument is wrong, but it shows a sloppy and careless approach, that the entire argument is based on a paper that was withdrawn for good reasons. The webpage linked below will provide a more detailed refutation.
http://www.tim-thompson.com/resp8.html

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Lunar dust falls on planets at a fairly fixed rate. There was a huge concern about this on the first moon landing. All the scientists did calculations and they determined that there would be around 52 feet of lunar dust on the moon (which has no atmosphere so the dust hits and stays). However there was a fraction of an inch.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/moon-dust.html
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_159a.html

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I could list many more.
please do, and perhaps add some evidence for creationism, none of your "arguments" above has anything to do with creationism.l
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