Who Built the Moon?

{{title-italics}}{{Pseudoastronomy}}'''''Who Built the Moon?''''' ({{Isbn|1842931636}}) is a 2005 book by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler. It is a collection of [[Numerology|
incredible
 coincidental facts]] about the [[Moon]] and other astronomical and planetary proportions, which leads the authors to believe that at some point in the future humanity travelled back in time  4.6 billion years to artificially construct the Moon. This is apparently known to the [[freemasons]].

[[Crank]] "insights" [[Crank magnetism|seldom come alone]]; the same authors also wrote books on the [[New World Order]] because there are statues in Washington, D.C.

==Arguments==
The authors propose a variety of tenuous coincidences, whose supposed improbability demonstrates that the Moon could not possibly have come about by chance. The Moon's size is unusual, both because it is relatively much larger than the moons of other planets<ref name=strangest>[https://www.whobuiltthemoon.com/the-strangest-of-moons.html The Strangest of Moons], WhoBuiltTheMoon.com</ref> and because it appears the same size as our sun which supposedly proves the Moon is a "deliberately created scale model of the Sun".<ref>[https://www.whobuiltthemoon.com/the-moon-is-not-a-natural-planet.html The Moon is not a Natural Planet], WhoBuiltTheMoon.com</ref>

It is generally accepted, based on geological analysis of moon rock, that the Moon was generated from the same material as the Earth, and the conventional interpretation is that it was separated due to a {{wpl|Theia (planet)|planet}} strike, even though there are a few questions in the theory yet to be answered conclusively.<ref>{{wpa|Giant-impact hypothesis}}</ref> But because not every detail of the giant-impact hypothesis is entirely certain, the authors suggest a far less plausible 
theory
 idea with far more unanswered questions: the Moon was deliberately constructed by taking material from the Earth and sticking it in space.<ref>[https://www.whobuiltthemoon.com/how-the-moon-was-made.html How the Moon was Made], WhoBuiltTheMoon.com</ref> Why? No idea. By whom? Um...

Their argument for the Moon as a created object bizarrely mirrors the [[argument from design]] often used by [[creationism|creationists]]: there is no way our moon could just appear like this.<ref>[https://www.whobuiltthemoon.com/isnt-this-all-bunkum.html Isn't this all Bunkum?], WhoBuiltTheMoon.com</ref> But it also draws heavily on [[numerology]] and numerical coincidence, some of which make no sense: "The Earth is 3.66 times bigger than the Moon and the Earth year (thanks to the presence of the Moon) takes 366 days"<ref>[https://www.whobuiltthemoon.com/so-far-so-good.html So Far So Good], WhoBuiltTheMoon.com</ref> — the length of a day has actually changed significantly, so this may be true now, but it wasn't in the past and won't be in the future.<ref>[https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/earth/6Page58.pdf Earth’s Rotation Changes and the Length of the Day], NASA</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.whobuiltthemoon.com/ Official webshite]
*[https://archive.org/details/SecretsOfOurSpaceshipMoon Secrets of our Spaceship Moon, Don Wilson (1979)] similar work about an artificial moon

==References==
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