Below is the online edition of In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood,
by Dr. Walt Brown. Copyright © Center for Scientific Creation. All rights reserved.
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Conclusions
Many ancient writings suggest there was once a 30-day lunar month, and there are physical characteristics on the Moon that indicate the asteroids or comets that hit the Moon came from the Earth. If the Moon had a circular orbit and a 30-day synodic period before the flood and only 1.22% of the mass ejected from the Earth during the flood hit the Moon, it would have altered the Moon’s orbit to what we see today. In fact, the calculated parameters of the Earth and Moon after the flood are all very close to the known values today. Table 43 compares seven of these calculated parameters with the actual values. Notice, the calculated values are only off by a fraction of a percent. On average, the absolute values of percent errors listed in Table 43 are only 0.031%!
At the end of the creation week, “God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good.” [Genesis 1:31] Although we are unable to truly appreciate how “very good” the original creation was, we now can better imagine how “very good” the preflood system was for measuring time.
