you can verify that the moon keeps the same side facing the earth without close up photography...just look at the moon for a month...you can see plenty of detail on the moon without magnification...
It looks different to me. I'm not saying totally different (i.e. somewhat familiar), but hence my preference for detailed close up shots to compare and see what is actually happening. Even if the same face is always directed to the Earth as claimed, I don't think this rules out an external translucent shell with an inner rotating light.
and evidently you didn't finish reading that article you quoted...because it goes on to explain exactly why that 'impossible' eclipse is actually possible...it is because of atmospheric refraction...
My point in quoting the article was that if moonlight is caused by the sun reflecting light onto the moon, then to Earth, the sun should not be visible during a lunar eclipse. The fact that the sun is visible during some lunar eclipses is confirmed even by those who believe the moon's phases are caused by the Earth's shadow. As the sun is visible on these occasions, another theory must be invoked by believers to sustain the initial one, similar to what is done to sustain the theory of evolution. Such evidence encourages me to reject outright the theory that moonlight is from the sun, rather than to make excuses and additional theories to extend its use.
i used to wonder why God put such huge, recognizable features like the Mares on the surface of the moon, easily visible from the surface of the earth with the naked eye of all mankind both in the day time and the night.
now i know.
I think God does all things for a reason. He has literally thought of everything.
The funny part of this post is that the equation is unsolvable because it is not equal to anything. The term X is unknown and the the equation is not defined as being equal to anything. So this equation can not be solved by anyone.
I think the equation Rick finally gave was this:
"(2 x y)+8(yz)= 216
if y is 4
and Z is 7"
Then x must equal -1.
This post is on to something. Two planets of equal mass can revolve around each other. However the mass of the sun is 333,000 times greater than the mass of earth. So the earth would appear to orbit around the sun and the sun would have a very tiny imperceptible wobble as the earth rotated around it. This means the geocentric theory is false.
If the heliocentric theory were true, in G. B. Airy's experiment of 1871, the water filled telescope would have needed tilting moreso than the air-filled telescope, to see the light of the stars through a medium with a slower speed of light (water). As both telescopes required the same angle, this experiment proved that it is the stars that move, rather than the Earth. The speed of light in the telescope medium is of no consequence, because the Earth is stationary - if the Earth were moving, the telescope angle would need to be adjusted based on the telescope medium.
With this in mind, we can then confidently say that either the theory of gravity as it applies to the Heavenly bodies is incorrect, or that the mass of the sun is not 333, 000 times the mass of the Earth (or in my view, probably both).