(January 20, 2012 at 7:33 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: Does that guy know anything? No one can explain how the tides come in and out huh? I can, it's called....the fucking moon! The moons gravitational pull on the earth pulls the oceans. The sun also plays a role.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/
His response, (paraphrase) "Um, yeah, I knew that! But how did the moon get there, smart guy? Huh, huh?"
To the best of my knowledge, no one has told him that the moon "got there" when a large asteroid collided with the then molten earth, creating first a ring and then this ring coalesced into what is now the moon. This was an important development for life on earth for a number reasons, not just for the tidal movements. The collision brought some of the iron to the surface, allowing for the manufacture of tools. It's relationship stabilized the earth's rotation, preventing the earth from wildly shifting on it's axis.
Presumably O'Riley would have countered, "Yeah, I knew that. But how did the asteroid collide with the earth?"
Is this continued regression ad infinitum a logical fallacy of some kind?
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