We are reexamining that it may have come out some other way than cast off rapidly spinning. If so, the spin evidence is not related. The lack of the iron core would be explained, if the iron remained with the earth. The "baking" is not proven, but is a consequence of the absence of water; so the absence of water must be explained. The sun and moon would have formed at the same distance from the sun, if they were formed together and then separated.
We must remember, we are actually asking three questions here, because this is a Christian forum: 1. What actually happened scientifically? 2. How would the people who wrote and accepted the Bible have processed it in their language with their technological understanding? 3. Is there any application in the answers to the first two that might be helpful to us to understand currently difficult passages of the Bible.
Last night, as I was falling asleep, I had the idea based on: creation is described by the folks contemporary with the early Christians and Jews (Philo and Aristotle and Plato, etc) as having begun with God separating unformed chaos into earth at the center, water around it, air around that, and finally fire around that, leaving the separation incomplete so movement would occur creating life. It would be possible to hypothesize that when God created the sun and moon, He took the earth that He had already raised up to a "top" in the water, and it was in a sphere about 2300 miles across (thank you to whoever got me thinking "smaller sphere"), originally in a ball of water about 9000 miles across total. He then peeled off the top layer of the sphere, leaving Pangea, with about 400 miles of lithosphere and mantle under it. The inner part was the moon, and as Pangea came "up", the moon went "down" (out the other side two Creation days later), and the force of separation slowly pushed the moon to its place in the sky, and also generated energy to create the heat for the molten iron core under Pangea. It makes sense theologically, and satisfies the requirements of the great NASA article you found (making it so simple to know what objections must be answered scientifically). We have satisfied the size of Pangea, the size of the moon, the size of the lithosphere, etc., with one simple drawing.
