Facts Indicating a Young Earth.
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The Earth's rotation gradually slowing at about .00002 seconds per year due to such effects as tidal friction. As the Earth spin slows, its energy given over to the moon which moves the moon away from the Earth about 4 cm per year. Since 1754, observations indicate that the moon's orbit is moving away from the Earth. Backward extrapolation would have the moon in contact with the Earth in < 2 billion years. If it came within Roche's Limit (11,500 miles) it would tear the moon to pieces.
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