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MONTAÑO, SHALENE P. XI_POSEIDON

THE MOON: A Faithful Witness In The Sky.

At last count, our moon was just one of three dozen planetary satellites in the solar system. Jupiter has at least fourteen; Pluto and many of the asteroids apparently also have orbiting moons. However the moon which dominates the earth's night sky has many created distinctives of its own. Furthermore all efforts to explain our moon's existence by natural physical processes have failed completely. This lack of understanding of origins also continues on the larger scale of the universe itself. Astronomers are perplexed by the missing mass of the galaxies, the missing neutrinos of the sun, and the missing mechanisms for formation of stars and planets. One is reminded of the prophet Jeremiah's counsel that the creation itself is in the endunfathomable: the heavens can never be fully measured, nor the foundations of the earth searched out (Jeremiah 31:37). Only the special revelation of God through His Son and His Word provides final answers in matters of origins. God was, after all, the only One there.

The Lord knew that men would attempt to account for the moon by natural evolutionary mechanisms. Thus there are forty lunar references in Scripture, many of which declare the moon's supernatural origin and beneficial design. The moon is compared with the Lord's covenant with David: It shall be established forever like the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven (Psalm 89:37).

Evolutionary ideas for the source of the moon divide themselves into three areas: formation from the earth, formation independent of the earth, and formation simultaneously with the earth. These three mechanistic alternatives are sometimes respectively called the daughter, wife, and sister theories of lunar origin. A brief consideration of each will demonstrate their total inability to naturally explain the moon's existence.

'The moon above serve's as a constant reminder of God's faithfulness and of the creation event'.