Pahu: Refuted? To refute is to prove (an argument or statement) to be false or wrong, by argument or evidence. The following refutes Tim Thompson’s “refutation.”
Yes, Pahu, refuted. Perhaps someone can contact Tim on this and he can explain in person to you, as he has done here before.
We do know two things about the distribution of the continents in the past, though quantification is virtually impossible. This is the reason for Hanseen's simplification: to show that the current rates of recession are not representative of the past. We know that there have been periods where there was essentially one continent and we also know that there are now more, and larger, continents than in the past. The point being that the rate of recession is much different, probably faster than throughout most of geological history.
And, AFAIK, the moon is not believed to be of the same age as the earth, so there is no need to match ages.
As a consequence the lunar recession clock will not keep good time, even if it did actually measure the age of the earth.