How old is the Earth?
NASA has acknowledged that the moon is receding from the earth at a rate of about 3.8 cm (1.5 inches) per year. What does that mean and how does that affect the age of the Earth ? (NASA 1994)
If we do a little arithmetic and multiplication, we would realize that there is something wrong calculations with all those billions of years old the Earth has been made out to be. How so ?
If we (go back and calculate) or extrapolate the number of centimeters (3.8 cm) per year the moon has receded, we will find the moon would have been so close to us, so as to touch the Earth approximately 1.4 billion years ago. (Lisle, Jason, Ph.D. 2013). Why is that significant ?
Some scientists are convinced of the idea that the Earth is 3.5 to 4.5 billion years old. This, however would be impossible under these circumstance. If the moon had been touching the earth 1.4 billion years ago, the huge tidal waves and the catastrophic results of such proximity would have destroyed the moon and all life on earth.
Since the moon’s orbit around the earth causes daily tides, if the moon had been that close to us, the tides would have been extremely high and they would have destroyed the earth’s continents with their forces due to the gravitational effect and thus taking away any possibility of anyone “evolving” or remaining alive. (“Museum of Natural Science and History” n.d.)
The BBC News editor or an article related to this fact did not acknowledge this when he stated “On early Earth, when the Moon was newly formed, days were five hours long, but with the Moon's braking effect operating on the Earth for the last 4.5bn years, days have slowed down to the 24 hours that we are familiar with now, and they will continue to slow down in the future”. (BBC News 2011).
BBC News is incorrect, their facts do not add up. Why ?
Because, if “the Moon sat much closer to the Earth - a mere 22,500km (14,000 miles) away, compared with the quarter of a million miles (402,336 km) between the Earth and the Moon today”, the moon would have broken to pieces.
Let us suppose the Earth and the Moon had been "created" 4.5 bn years ago and the Earth and the Moon were able to coexist. The moon would have been totally destroyed to pieces while under such proximity to the earth.
“In fact, at that distance the Moon would be well inside the Earth’s Roche limit, the distance from the Earth where its tides could break another object apart.
In other words, the tides from the Earth would literally rip the Moon to pieces! So we wouldn’t even have a Moon; we’d have a thick debris ring composed of ex-Moon. That would be cool to see, too, except for the whole everyone being dead thing”. (Plait, Phil 2014).
In other words, the tides from the Earth would literally rip the Moon to pieces! So we wouldn’t even have a Moon; we’d have a thick debris ring composed of ex-Moon. That would be cool to see, too, except for the whole everyone being dead thing”. (Plait, Phil 2014).
Additionally, Barnes, in 1982 stated,
"From the same laws one can show that the moon would have never survived a nearness to the earth of less than 11,500 miles. That distance is known as the Roche limit.1 The tidal forces of the earth on a satellite of the moon's dimensions would break up the satellite into something like the rings of Saturn. Hence the receding moon was never that close to the earth". (Barnes, G. Thomas, D.Sc 1982)
Barnes continues,
"This known dynamical limit in the earth-moon system is a great problem to knowledgeable evolutionists. Robert C. Humes in his book Introduction to Space Science (John Wiley, 1971) acknowledges the problem and states that "The whole subject of the origin of the moon must be regarded as highly speculative." Dr. Louis B. Slichter, Professor of Geophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology treats this problem in great detail and concludes that "the time scale of the earth-moon system still presents a major problem."
According to Plait, there would have been global floods with catastrophic results. Tidal waves kilometers high would have come around the world every 90 minutes (due to the Moon’s closer, faster orbit), killing and scouring clean everything in its path. The tides felt by the Earth would have amplified enormously—“nearly 100,000 times what we experience now! “.
Neither, the Earth nor the Moon appear to be 4.5 billion years old.
Facts like these show that the Moon and the Earth could not possibly be more than a few thousands of years old. Why ?
If the extrapolate the number of inches the Moon is receding from the Earth, the distance from the Moon to the Earth would have been a mere 730 feet closer to the Earth 6,000 years ago. If the Earth is 6,000 years old, lunar recession would not have caused any catastrophic problems, and would fit well within the true facts, parameters of life, science and math today.
References
BBC News. 2011. “Why Is the Moon Getting Further Away from Earth ?” BBC News, 2011. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-12311119.
Lisle, Jason, Ph.D. 2013. “The Solar System and the Moon, Acts and Facts.” Institute for Creation Research. http://www.icr.org/article/solar-system-earth-moon/.
“Museum of Natural Science and History.” n.d. Accessed October 16, 2017. http://www.truescience.ca/.
NASA. 1994. “Measuring the Moon’s Distance. Apollo Laser Ranging Experiments Yield Results.” National Aeronautics and Space Administracion LPI Bulletin, No 72, August, 1994. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/ApolloLaser.html.
Plait, Phil. 2014. “What If...the Moon Orbited at the Same Height as the ISS (International Space Station) ?” http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/19/close_encounter_what_if_the_moon_orbited_much_closer_to_earth.html.
Barnes, G. Thomas, D.Sc. 1982. “Institute for Creation Research.” Young Earth for the Moon and Earth Acts & Facts. 11 (8). http://www.icr.org/article/young-age-for-moon-earth/.
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