The Secretive Moon

We have long been fascinated with our moon, however, the truth about the moon has long been shrouded in mystery and theory. Our moon behaves completely different than any other moon that science has been able to observe; so what exactly is the moon to us? The moon does not seem to follow any logical pattern in the orbit, only one side of the moon is visible to us, and it appears to not rotate like all other visible bodies. The moon seems to affect our gravitational field, the ebbs and tides of the oceans, and our human emotions. But what is this strange body that is so completely different than all the others?

There are as many theories about the moon as there are answers and facts. Our many trips to the moon have also been in question so I am not certain if we have physically visited this body. It does seem very strange that it was portrayed that we made it through the Van Allen Radiation belt with the equipment that is now on display in museums. Additionally, it has bee reported that we no longer have the technology to get to the moon; this seems very strange indeed because the computing power that the Apollo missions had was only a small portion of what an average cellphone has now. If you read through biblical scripture, it also seems that the moon, stars, and the sun are simply placed within a firmament much akin to a planetarium. History of our ancient texts also show that the moon has not always been in…