Our Marvelous Moon - 2 of 3

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

Earlier we were looking at the wonderful testimony of the Moon, Sun and planets in our Solar System. But it would benefit us to look a little more closely at some of these heavenly bodies, beginning with our Moon. The Moon is just the right size, is just the right distance, and revolves at just the right speed around the Earth. It’s mass in proportion to the Earth is unique in all the Solar system. It’s 10 times that of any other Moon-planet relationship, providing scriptural evening light, phased to give us the promised accurate time record. If the Moon was much closer or farther from the Earth, it is likely that tidal influences could prevent life from even existing on Earth. The same effects would occur if the Moon’s orbit about the Earth was a little faster or a little slower. The earth’s gravity keeps the Moon in orbit, and is so strong that it would need a steel cable 850 km (531 miles) in diameter to provide an equivalent binding force without breaking. The Moon rotates around its own axis once every 29½ days, counterclockwise with the Earth’s rotation, locked in with its revolution about the Earth.