I was reading some information on a creationist website about the way that the Earth's enviorment is constructed and the number of variables that have to be tweeked to such a fine degree that if any of them were out of alignment by a small percent, life on this planet - as we know it now - would be impossible.
I am curious although not instructed in this area to answer my own question, but what if the Earth had 2 moons instead of just one. I am wondering if the earth had a second moon that was 20% further away from the Earth along with the current one and it was just large enough to have the same gravitational effects that our current moon has. I don't know the math that would go into calculating the mass that this moon would need to be to achieve this, but if our planet had this arrangement of multiple moons, could the Earth still support life as it is today?
For arguments sake, I'll assume that both moons are in the same rotational plane and the closer leads the farther by 120 degrees.