What a hoot. Imagine the Moon fusing hydrogen. Loved Bill Kettenhofen”s parody of the forth day of Genesis. Or I hope it was. It is filled with so many misconceptions that it cannot be taken seriously. The Moon does not have sufficient mass to compress hydrogen into fusing. And, as it has the same arc as the sun (half a degree as seen from earth) it would have been as bright as the sun is now. Which means no night if it stayed opposite the sun. And the water vapor, which traps heat from leaving the
earth, would have created a superheated environment as we see on Venus.
But he did make one mistake. The age of the earth is determined by radioactive decay of elements which have half-lives of hundreds of thousands of years, not radiocarbon dating. He should have gone with the one geologist who says that radioactive decay occurred at a much faster rate in the past and slowed down more recently. The geologist failed to explain how this was possible. Of course, God can make anything happen.
The only trouble is finding a reason that he would. Thanks, Bill, for ”brightening” my day.
Kevin Bracken, Kelseyville
