Considering the Heavens--Our Moon

"The moon and stars to rule by night, for His loving kindness is everlasting." Psalm 136:9

The moon takes my breath away when I look at it on beautiful dark nights. Sometimes only a sliver is lit, but I can see the round shadow of the full moon. When the moon is totally lit up and lights up the land around me, it truly gives me a feeling of awe and insignificance. From the 'tiny' craters to the massive 'seas' our moon is breathtaking.

It is also a marvelous testimony to a young earth. From and evolutionist point of view, here are a few questions which may cause a problem:
1. How did the moon get there?
2. Is there proof of how old the moon is?
3. Is the moon actually 'dead'?

These are only just a few of the questions a evolution believer may wonder inwardly but on the outside tell people the 'proofs' and the 'facts'. Looking into their answers, however, reveals that there is really no proof for any of their answers. There is a whole lot of theories of how the moon 'got there' all without proof and made completely by their imagination. Theories such as the earth 'throwing off' the moon, being 'caught' by the earths orbit, or both being 'formed' at the same time, have no evidence what-so-ever. According to the Bible, the earth was specially created to rule the night on day four. Also, these theories are unrealistic, not just unprovable. First off, the earth spinning so fast that it throws off the moon doesn't make sense scientifically, second, according to how real orbits work, the earth would have actually 'whipped' the moon sending it soaring into space. Thirdly, them being formed at the same time may seem a bit more logical, but we know that something cannot come from nothing. Basic law of science there...

An evolutionist idea of how the moon began.

According to the Bible, the earth was formed on day four and is approximately six thousand years old, we know this by adding up the 'sons of' and other time-linking parts in God's Word. Another interesting point is that by scientific observation, at present, the moon is moving away from earth about 4 cm per year. Taking this amount, doing some math, and going back about 1 billion years ago, the moon is pretty close to the earth-- rephrase that--the moon is WAY too close to the earth. As in, it is now in or gone through the Roche Limit, and is rather destroyed...
Lastly, and my personal favorite, is whether or not the moon is what evolutionist call 'dead'. And I say, "Most certainly not!"  In medieval times (AD 1178) it is recorded that moon watchers observed something hitting the moon on the upper side of it and causing a large explosion, the crater (called Bruno), that this comet made, is seen today. Also, the moon still 'rings' by the hit it received.
The below sites can explain it far better than me and I also got a lot of my information from the company.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v3/n1/heavens-declare-young-solar-system

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2006/08/11/feedback-lunar-recession

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/tj/v7/n1/moondust


Also, some incredible movies on the subject:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/store/product/our-created-moon/

http://www.answersingenesis.org/store/product/creation-cosmology/


http://www.answersingenesis.org/store/product/creation-astronomy/

http://www.answersingenesis.org/store/product/distant-starlight/ 

http://www.answersingenesis.org/store/product/astronomy-and-bible-riddle/ 

Plenty of the above isn't about the moon, most of it is just about our amazing created universe and the proof that God made it all! And truly these web pages and movies are worth your time, they are far above anything I could ever write.
Please feel free to comment your own ideas or additional information to me, I'm always in to hearing what readers have to say!