The Solar Eclipse and a Remarkable Coincidence

Tomorrow on the 14th November, there will be a total solar eclipse (the path passes over Cairns in northern Queensland).

This news article gives some background: 
http://www.news.com.au/travel/australia/watch-the-far-north-queensland-solar-eclipse-live/story-e6frfq89-1226515142164 

On reading it I noticed the comment:
By a remarkable celestial coincidence, the sun is 400 times wider than the moon, but also 400 times farther away, so for those on the coastline between Cairns and Port Douglas tomorrow, the discs will appear to match in size.

This 'coincidence' also helped expedite at least 3 very significant scientific discoveries, including a confirmation of part of Einstein's Theory of Relativity back in 1917.

I discuss this in my Intelligent Design series of lectures at www.circumcisedheart.info 

But, this remarkable 'coincidence' is not the only thing special about the moon. Consider:

When primordial Earth was only 30 to 50 million years old, a planet between 11 and 14 percent the mass of Earth (~ Mars = 0.107 Earth masses) smashed into Earth at a 45-degree angle. The speed of the planet upon impact was surprisingly low (less than 4 kilometers per second). This crash resulted in a planet with its surface gravity, surface temperature, atmospheric composition, atmospheric pressure, iron abundance, tectonics, volcanism; rotation rate, rate of decline in rotation rate, and stable rotation axis tilt all in the just-right range to support advanced life.

Just some of the results of this astonishing collision are:

• Replaced Earth’s thick, life-suffocating atmosphere with one thin enough (~100x) for light to pass through & have just the right chemical composition to foster life.
• Boosted Earths mass & density just enough to allow a large quantity of water vapour to be retained for billions of years
• Played a major role in salting Earth's interior with an abundance of long-lasting radioisotopes, the heat from which drives most of earth's tectonic activity and volcanism.
• Gradually slowed Earth's rotation rate so that a wide variety of lower life-forms could survive long enough to provide the resources needed for the existence of advanced life-forms. This slowing was also directly significant to advanced life, which cannot survive the high wind velocities of a more rapid rotation rate.
• Stabilized the tilt of Earth's rotation axis, protecting the planet from rapid and extreme climatic variations.
• Created the Earth’s moon! Without the Moon, Earth could not sustain advanced life. Only a massive, solo moon has the gravitational strength to stabilize the tilt of a Planet's rotation axis for an extended period. However, with a mass only 2 percent larger (a radius just 11 km longer), the moon would have pulled the tilt of Earth's rotation axis out of stability. And the gravity of a moon with only 2 percent less mass would be too weak to put adequate brakes on Earth's rotation rate.
• Without that slowing effect, Earth would complete each spin-each day-in the blinding speed of just a few hours, instead of 24. Even a slightly faster rotation rate would generate overwhelmingly frequent, long lasting and powerful hurricanes and tornadoes. A slightly slower spin rate would bring life-threatening temperature swings from day to night and would drastically decrease rainfall on continental landmasses.

The collision that led to the formation of a just-right moon appears to have been perfectly aimed, weighed, and timed to change Earth from a "formless and empty" wasteland into a site where advanced life could survive and thrive.

(Facts courtesy of Dr Hugh Ross, www.reasons.org)

So was the perfect ratio of the moons diameter to its distance to the sun really a remarkable coincidence, or was it Designed with Man in Mind!?