Capturing Genesis1: Moon

By reflexes February 5, 2008

This is the third of the series Capturing Genesis1.

Have you ever wondered why God made the moon? While it is probably easy to simplify that the answer is ‘to provide night light’, something inside me tells that there’s probably more to that. I tried doing a search in the web and found some interesting facts which in most cases made my jaw drop:

The moon stabilizes the earth in its rotation on its axis… we’ll be wobbling instead of rotating smoothly. This disrupts climate.

Without the moon, the earth will be spinning faster, this would obviously change what we know about ‘time’

If the moon never existed, the orbit of the earth would be closer to the sun. Talk about extinction.

There’s a whole lot more reasons that people/scientists will probably say. Next time we see the moon, I believe it’s a good idea to say: ‘Thank You, Lord!’