It's different because it's not true. I did explain why the moon rotates at the speed it does--though not in this thread--, it's a well-understood phenomenon called tidal locking. Weather patterns in ancient times have nothing to do with it, so it didn't seem worth talking about.
It it sometimes called tidal deformation. The reason I brought up weather patterns is that it comes from an ancient book, although it is more an observation than theory or principle would science be able to confirm or debunk the accuracy?
And there's a difference between calling people names and calling them what they clearly are.
Sometimes, for myself, it can be appropriate but in only in some conversations. When I get called one I react either with a laugh and a 'that's a pretty good one' or 'heard that how many times before'. If only one side is using 'name calling', then it just became 'un-appropriate' when talking to that 1 person.
If I was to say this to you, as an attack on your intelligence, 'if your brain was shoved up a gnat's ass, it would be comparative to putting a BB in a boxcar'. I would hope it made you laugh a bit, being trounced in the main subject already would have brought on a frown.
Then there are the few who blow a cork. and we both know how much fun that is.
Now my guide to the subject has an answer to 'did the first rain rise from the earth and then come back down or did it come down as 'snow from space' and the earth changed it to rain. It doesn't have an answer to a question that would show the size and trajectory of how the moon and earth interacted in the past. A collision might explain the wobble, and how much rotational speed was effected, a glancing blow would either speed it up or slow it down. Their cooling off might have looked like large drops thick liquid in slow motion.
If it hit the earth against rotation could the slow-down, that has been measured, be just part of that event? As it moves further away our days should become shorter (less influence).
If the position of the moon is the cause of our rotation slowing down then the earth must be out-of-round, same as the moon is. Also, the earth should be trying to influence the moons rotation (action/reaction). If we are slowing, it's month should be doing something different, faster/slower, I don't know what numbers they would give for that..