Could this be a key argument?

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I mean the earths form as well as the moon would look something a bit different than a sphere if they had suffered an impact of this magnitude.

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An impact that large would have produced so much heat that the Earth and chunk knocked off would have been "molten blobs", which gravity would have formed into spheres.

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If the moon collision happened 10's of thousands years ago, then the creationist view of Earth being 6000 years old is kinda correct. Meaning about 6000 years ago it was fit for life.

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However if this collision happened later than that, like millions, well looks like carbon dating is accurate and world is older that 6000 years old. This could be a key argument, but I don't know if scientists have the methods to predict when this happened.

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Oh, I thought you were looking for an "exact" age of the moon. I didn't realize you were looking for a difference between thousands and billions.The moon was formed about 4 billion years ago. There was a late heavy bombardment (leftovers from the formation of the solar system still slamming into planets and moons) that abated about 3.9 to 3.8 billion years ago and our moon was one of the targets.

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But what baffles me is that this system of forces, and chemicals, go towards the upbringing of life. ... Without the moon, we would be completely dead.

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We? Or life?

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The moon keeps the earth on its axis...

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What evidence do we have that such is REQUIRED for the maintenance of life on Earth?

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...the moon determines tides...

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And tides are REQUIRED for there to be life on Earth because...?

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...the moon helped shield asteroids...

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Helped. The Earth is a bigger target and would have been slammed by more than the Moon would have intercepted.

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...and the moon sprouted life.

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What?[This message has been edited by DNAunion, 03-21-2004]

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Everything is set up. It freaks me out. Amino acids and a lot of CO2 due to volcanoes makes phytoplankton.

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It does???

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The sky is red due to sulfur, suprisingly the frequency of light that optimizes photosynthesis.

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The sky is red??? Looks pretty blue to me. Do [you] mean at [sunset]? That has to do with the angle of light reaching you and how much atmosphere is has to travel through (and therefore, how much scattering occurs). And enough sulfur in the atmosphere to change the color? I doubt it. Our atmosphere is about 78% molecular nitrogen, 21% molecular oxygen, 1% argon, and 0.03% carbon dioxide.And since photosynthesis as we find it today is the product of billions or years of evolution, it is little wonder that we would find it tuned as it is.[This message has been edited by DNAunion, 03-21-2004]

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Once again, if ANYONE knows if scientists have a number as to when this would happen, I could use that in an argument in the EvC forum.

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Found one.

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The modern theory is that the Moon was created by a massive impact with the Earth nearly 4.5 billion years ago. (Page not found - Adler Planetarium)

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