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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: moon and creationism
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Date: Sun, 11-Dec-83 22:16:30 EST
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A recent issue of SCIENCE (Vol. 221 pg. 1166) has a boxed article on this
subject. It summarizes some work by Kirk Hansen which links the current
rate of recession to resonances between the earth's rotation rate and the
tidal period. It is stated that extrapolating the current rate leads to
problems about 1.5 to 2 billion years ago, so I don't think this can
be reasonably construed as support for creationism, whatever theoretical
problems it might present.

		Lew Mammel, Jr. ihnp4!ihuxr!lew