Billions of years of evolution right? So let's do some math with a 3 inch orbit decay of the moon per year: 1 Foot would take 4 years. 10 feet would take 40 years. 100 feet would take 400 years. 1,000 feet would take 4,000 years. 5,280 feet (1 mile) would take 21,120 years. For a 6,000 year old universe, this would mean the moon moved out of orbit less than 1/4 of a mile. But let's go back in time and allow the moon to move 3 inches closer per year and see if the time-line required for evolution