{"id":560235,"date":"2026-07-21T05:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560235\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T05:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:42:15","slug":"the-moon-confirms-a-young-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/560235\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moon Confirms a Young Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just about a week ago, we hosted Astronaut Encounter 2 at the Ark Encounter with three Christian<\/a> astronauts, including General Charlie Duke, who walked on the moon during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. He was the tenth and youngest person to walk on the lunar surface, and he\u2019s a Christian who gives God<\/a> the glory for what He\u2019s made.<\/p>\n

(That event was a great success, everyone loved hearing from these godly men who have experienced so much and are so bold for the Lord. Enjoy these photos and a big thank-you to our event sponsor, BJU Press<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

On this International Moon Day, I thought I\u2019d highlight how the moon confirms a young universe, like the Bible<\/a> teaches, not a supposed billions-of-years-old one.<\/p>\n

Every year, it drifts about an inch and a half further away from us due to gravitational forces involved with the tides.<\/p>\n

Did you know the moon is actually moving away from earth? Every year, it drifts about an inch and a half further away from us due to gravitational forces involved with the tides. Interestingly, measurements and data from the Apollo missions gave us this precise recession rate. And this rate gives a maximum age for our earth-moon system (and spoiler, it\u2019s not billions of years!).<\/p>\n

You see, an inch and a half isn\u2019t much over the course of a few millennia (in the 6,000 years that\u2019s passed since day four of creation<\/a> week, the moon has moved less than 1,000 feet)\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. but the moon is supposed to be 4.5 billion years old. Over that amount of time, an inch and a half a year adds up! It adds up so much that if we extrapolate this recession rate back into the past, the moon would\u2019ve been touching the earth just 1.5 billion years ago. And that doesn\u2019t match with lunar origin stories or the scientific data (the moon couldn\u2019t be that close to earth without our gravitational forces destroying it).<\/p>\n

Of course, rescuing devices have been proposed, but they all fail for one reason or another (you can read this article<\/a> to learn more). The truth is that our moon displays the glory of God and confirms exactly what we\u2019d expect starting with Scripture: It\u2019s not billions of years old.<\/p>\n

And our moon is not the only one out there. Other planets in our solar system also have their own moon or moons, and like our moon, these celestial objects also confirm the Bible\u2019s history. You can learn more about them in this article, \u201cTo the Moons and Back<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
\n
Ken \n<\/p>\n

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