Moon Dust and Debris -- Science Disproves Evolution

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If the Moon were billions of years old, it should have accumulated a thick layer of dust and debris from meteoritic bombardment. Before instruments were placed on the Moon, some scientists were very concerned that astronauts would sink into a sea of dust�possibly a mile in thickness (a). This did not happen. Very little meteoritic debris is on the Moon. In fact, after examining rocks and dust brought back from the Moon, scientists learned that only about 1/67 of the dust and debris came from outer space. Recent measurements of the influx rate of meteoritic material on the Moon also do not support an old Moon (b).� [For more details, see pages 577�579.]

Before instruments were sent to the Moon, Isaac Asimov made some interesting, but false, predictions. After estimating the great depths of dust that should be on the Moon, Asimov dramatically ended his article by stating:

I get a picture, therefore, of the first spaceship, picking out a nice level place for landing purposes, coming in slowly downward tail-first and sinking majestically out of sight. Isaac Asimov, �14 Million Tons of Dust Per Year,� Science Digest, January 1959, p.�36.

Lyttleton felt that dust from only the erosion of exposed Moon rocks by ultraviolet light and x-rays �could during the age of the moon be sufficient to form a layer over it several miles deep.� Raymond A. Lyttleton, The Modern Universe (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956), p.�72.

Thomas Gold proposed that thick layers of dust accumulated in the lunar maria. [See Thomas Gold, �The Lunar Surface,� Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, Vol.�115, 1955, pp.�585�604.]

Fears about the dust thickness lessened when instruments were sent to the Moon from 1964 to 1968. However, some concern remained, at least in Neil Armstrong�s mind, as he stepped on the Moon. [See transcript of conversations from the Moon, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 1969, Section 1, p.�1, and Paul D. Ackerman, It�s a Young World After All (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1986), p.�19.]

b. �Powdery particles resting on the moon�s surface could form a layer up to 1 millimeter thick every 1,000 years, according to a new analysis.� Meghan Rosen, �Moon Dust Gathers Surprisingly Fast,� Science News, Vol�185, 11�January 2014, p.�6.

Extrapolating this rate of 1 millimeter per 1,000 years would produce a dust layer almost 3 miles thick in 4.5 billion years!