Thursday, January 10, 2008

They call this Science ???

[From a magazine we randomly received in the mail]

"Where did the moon come from? The Giant Impact Theory states that Earth, 4.5 billion years ago, was 50 million years old. At that time, Earth was impacted by a planetary body, whose mass was roughly the same as the mass of Mars. That collision caused the colliding body to be destroyed. Meanwhile, the upper layers of Earth's mantle were vaporized. In the process of vaporization, Earth ejected large amounts of debris into its own orbit, from which the moon was formed."

Wa-wa-WHHHAAAATTT??

So, the surface of the earth was vaporized so perfectly that we got the beautiful and miraculously harmonious earth we have today?

And the impact of the "colliding body" just so happened to tilt the earth at the perfect 23 1/2 degrees (can you believe I remembered that factoid!!) and in perfect orbit with the sun and rest of the planets?

And the "bits" of "debris" just happened to form the moon that is in perfect orbit with the earth?

Things just get wackier and wackier.

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