The Moon is big, it's sometimes bright and it's old. Creationists don't like that last one so they use bad "evidence" to try and disprove it.
If the Moon is billions of years old there should have been so much dust on the moon that Apollo 11 should have sunk in it.
Even Answers in Genesis calls bullshit on this one[1]. This was started by Hans Pettersson a geophysicist in the 1950's. Hans Pettersson attempted to estimate the amount of meteorite dust that falls on the Earth each year. he estimated 14 million tons of meteoritic dust fell on the earth each year, taking that number, the gravitational pull of the moon and 4 billion years he estimated that there should be 35 feet of dust on the moons surface. He was wrong of course. Where science checks, rechecks and checks again, is self correcting and marches on creationism holds on to ideas long after they have been discredited even by the researchers who came up with those ideas.
Hans Pettersson arrived at the 14 million tons per day figure by taking dust samples and measuring the amount of nickel in them. Meteorites on average contain 2.5 percent nickel. His error was assuming that there would be no nickel in the dust from earth. Hans Pettersson corrected his figures and came to a much more accurate and much smaller number of 40 thousand tons per year and the moon only 3 thousand tons per year[2].
Don't expect creationists to update their arguments though.
Because of tidal friction the moon is receding from earth too fast for the moon too have been there for billions of years.
The Moon is receding. The recession of the moon is caused by tidal friction. Everyone (or they should) knows that the moon effects the tides causing high tide but what many don't know is: the gravity of the Moon causes a bulge on the earth and due to the Earth rotating faster than the Moon orbits this bulge is always ahead of the moon. The mass of this bulge causes the moon to slowly accelerate and thus slowly recede from the earth.
The argument is still bunk. The recession of the moon is only 3.8 cm (1.5 inches) per year[3]. That would only make the moon 152 thousand kilometer closer to Earth 4 billion years ago, The moons distance from the earth is and average of 385,400 kilometers today[4].
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