Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Creation Moment 1/30/2020 - Moon "Theories" Tripped up by Angular Momentum’

And God made ...the lesser light to rule the night...
Genesis 1:16

"All moving objects have ‘momentum’, requiring some degree of effort to stop them.

The faster they’re moving or the more massive they are, the greater is their momentum.
Objects moving in a straight line are said to have ‘linear momentum’; spinning objects, or those in orbit, are said to have ‘angular momentum’.
It is possible to calculate the total angular momentum of the earth together with its moon, and any theory of moon formation must be able to account for this.
Here,
---the ‘condensation theory’ fails because, when compared with other planets in our solar system, the Earth/moon system has too much angular momentum.
---The fission theory’ fails because it has too little angular momentum: in order to fling material off to form the moon, the earth must have been spinning very fast.
---The ‘impact theory’ also fails because impact scenarios which give rise to a moon comprised mainly of earth material (and therefore moon rocks with similar isotope signatures) result in too much angular momentum."
CMI