A receding moon proves a young Earth - debunked (another Golden Crocoduck nominee)
Channel: potholer54
Date: 2012-08-17

The Hovinds, Kent and Eric, try to show that the Earth can't be old because the moon is receding. Once again, a clear breach of the 9th Commandment that lands poor Eric with a Golden Crocoduck nomination. Both Hovind videos are listed in the Golden Crocoduck nominee 2012 playlist

SOURCES:

7:04 -- "Geological constraints on the Precambrian history of Earth's rotation and the Moon's orbit" -- George E. Williams, Reviews of Geophysics 2000, doi:10.1029/1999RG900016

7:27 -- Ibid.

The changes to lunar recession due to tidal configuration are discussed at: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/moonrec.html