Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools... Romans 1:22
"Another suggestion is that an originally molten earth spun so fast that part of it flew off and became the moon. This is known as the ‘fission theory’, from Latin, fissio meaning ‘splitting’, proposed by George Darwin, son of Charles.
Calculations, however, indicate that the earth’s rotational speed would never have been great enough for this to happen.
Another problem is the marked differences between rocks found on the moon and those on the earth. If the moon were once part of the earth, we would expect moon and earth rocks to contain elements in similar amounts; but this is not so.
For example, potassium and sodium are found in abundance in Earth’s rocks, but not in those on the moon.
Conversely, moon rocks contain significantly more aluminium, calcium and thorium. This is also a problem for the ‘condensation theory’.
Another good reason for rejecting the ‘fission theory’ arises from a consideration of the moon’s orbital path. If the theory were correct, we would expect the moon to orbit around the earth’s equator,,, but it does not!"
CMI
"Another suggestion is that an originally molten earth spun so fast that part of it flew off and became the moon. This is known as the ‘fission theory’, from Latin, fissio meaning ‘splitting’, proposed by George Darwin, son of Charles.
Calculations, however, indicate that the earth’s rotational speed would never have been great enough for this to happen.
Another problem is the marked differences between rocks found on the moon and those on the earth. If the moon were once part of the earth, we would expect moon and earth rocks to contain elements in similar amounts; but this is not so.
For example, potassium and sodium are found in abundance in Earth’s rocks, but not in those on the moon.
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| Formation of the moon according to the ‘fission theory’. If this were correct we would expect the moon now to be orbiting around the earth’s equator; but it is not. |
Another good reason for rejecting the ‘fission theory’ arises from a consideration of the moon’s orbital path. If the theory were correct, we would expect the moon to orbit around the earth’s equator,,, but it does not!"
CMI