- Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here
from Faith Forward Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
So in the conversation that I just had with Kent Hovind,
he issued me a little challenge, and in the process,
he showed that he doesn't understand basic math and geometry.
- I would like to challenge you, brother.
The moon is about 2,000 miles in diameter.
I would like you to draw me a picture
showing how you would place 5,000 craters
12 miles in diameter on a 2,000 mile ball.
Show me a picture of that.
- All right, so let's help him out
with a little bit of like basic high school geometry.
Okay, so just using his number,
you know, he just rounded it off
and said the moon's 2,000 miles in diameter.
Okay, well then that would give it a radius of 1,000 miles.
Well, okay, so the formula for the surface area
of a sphere is 4 pi r squared.
Okay, so let's go ahead and take his radius, right?
1,000 miles and then let's go ahead and square that.
And then let's go ahead and times that by pi, okay?
And then let's go ahead and times that by four.
And so that's what we would come up with
that the surface area of the moon is 12,566,370.61.
That's with his rounded number, okay?
The actual number, if we looked at the actual numbers,
it's about 14.6 million square miles.
Here we got 12.5 because he rounded down the number.
So either way, we're looking at about the same number.
Okay, so now let's talk about the craters.
So he said he wanted to see how I could fit
5,000 craters that are 12 miles in diameter on the moon
if the moon's only about 2,000 miles in diameter.
Okay, so let's just pretend for a second
that none of the craters overlap
because of course the craters do overlap, okay?
And there are craters within craters.
But just if we wanted to put a box around each crater
just to make sure that there's no overlapping, right?
Then we could take the area of this whole box
and it's gonna be 12 times 12.
So it's gonna be 144 square miles.
So let's see how many times 144
can fit on the surface of the moon.
Let's see how many of these suckers we can fit on the moon.
Well, it looks like 87,266.
So I don't think we're gonna have any trouble
fitting 5,000 of these bad boys, okay?
If we use the actual numbers, 600, right?
And use that actual number right there, the 14.6 million.
And then even if we have no overlap, okay?
Boom, over 100,000.
And he's smugly laughingly saying,
oh, you know, I'd like to see that picture
of how you can fit, you know, 5,000 of these things
on the moon if it's only a diameter of 2,000.
Now, obviously, many of these 5,000 plus craters
are much more than 12 miles in diameter,
and they overlap, there are craters within craters,
but I'm just showing the utter geometry and math fail
of this ridiculous, weak challenge that he hit me with.
- I would like to challenge you, brother.
The moon is about 2,000 miles in diameter.
I would like you to draw me a picture
showing how you would place 5,000 craters,
12 miles in diameter on a 2,000 mile ball.
Show me a picture of that.
I think you are-- - That's pretty easy
because they overlap one another
because there are craters within craters.
So give me a hard question
because anybody can do the research,
anybody can look at the high resolution images
and they'll see that there are giant craters
with lots of other craters inside them.
And it's so funny how you talk about the craters
on the backside of the moon being small.
That's just 'cause you're looking at a small picture.
Those craters are gigantic and they are dramatically larger
than the crater in Arizona that you pointed to
that's two thirds of a mile in diameter.