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Birth of the Moon: a Runaway Nuclear Reaction?
An anonymous reader writes "How the Moon arose has long stumped scientists. Now Dutch geophysicists argue that it was created not by a massive collision 4.5 billion years ago, but by a runaway nuclear reaction deep inside the young Earth."
Tidal Forces
The theory that life initially began in some sort of tidal pool is pretty flimsy and isn't significantly more likely than some of the other theories evolutionists have come up with. In fact it hasn't developed much beyond "well, we're pretty sure it's not impossible, so we think it might have happened." Have you anything better than conjuncture?
It's certainly not enough to warrant claiming that "we observe the moon in its unlikely state because that was the most conducive to our own evolution". That's like saying you must be near an airport because a plane flew overhead... it's a possibility, yes, but it certainly doesn't prove anything.
it could act as a blocker for rogue material headed Earth's way
I don't buy the idea that it's gravitationally able to shield the earth from much of anything large enough to cause major changes, if that's what you're arguing here.
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Do you mean a manned mission? I'm pretty sure that planetary probes, landers and all, would have been hot on the heels of rockets, moon or no. Literally, "LET'S TRY IT!".
If you mean a manned mission, well, there hasn't been one yet.
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