Have you ever wondered how our lives would be different without the moon? We would not have the tidal action in our oceans like it is today, we would not have eclipses (eclipses were key to ancient humans understanding the motions of the heavens), and we would experience a radically different culture than the one based on our current system of "months" (monthly estrus cycles of mammals; development of the calendar; religious and agricultural timekeeping; etc.) Given those coincidences, along with the unusual fact that the apparent size of the Moon, as seen from the Earth, is so close to the apparent diameter of the Solar disk, it makes for a disturbing claim that the origin of the Moon cannot be ascribed to chance.
i've always had a problem with this arugment (i'm suggesting that you are referring to the intelligent design argument).
it makes absolutely no sense to me to say that everything throughout the history of the universe had to happen in such and such a specific way (for example, the big bang had to release the precise amounts of gases and in the proper proportions in order for stars to be created etc etc), and therefore god (or a higher power) must have been there to make sure all this took place properly.
the problem with this argument is that it relies on a (sort of) circular argument to reach it's proof. we are arguing from the point of view after all these specifics have already taken place. therefore, obviously if things were to exist exactly as they do now, everything in the past had to have happened exactly as it had. otherwise, we wouldn't be in the 'now' we are in. it does not follow that there would never and could never have been an alternative 'now' had the past went differently. the design argument assumes that this fact is false and does not respond to any reasons or arguments for it.
You're not being serious, right? Nobody really believes that crap? It's some joke between you and manavendra, right? Right? You got lucky and got to be the straight-(wo)man? Right?
People don't really believe that nonsense. The moon's an observation post? Yeeeeeeeeesh.
I believe more in "that crap" than in other more traditional beliefs. Some people believe there is a God, but I think THAT'S crap. Others believe Maradona IS God, I ain't kidding. Some people even believe planet Earth is a living being. Others believe there exists such a thing as democracy, that is, the government by the people. Others don't, of course.
If anyone wants to know about "that crap" just take a look at the next videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkswXVmG4xM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud49Gh9yYLs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpHAxxRKksQ
Maradona definitely had the cheating hand of god. He should have been a poker player
But that is a really good press conference you linked! I especially like the Japan airlines flight, and the Iranian military encounter as two of the best ever documented! It's pretty much absurd that the existence of these things in the sky and in the water are ridiculed still. There is a wonderful book I'm reading that just came out last month called, "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials go on the Record" by Leslie Kean, that I highly recommend