This is the point and you are ignoring it.
I haven't ignored it. I've directly refuted it.
The moon would not travel at the same speed or path of stars if it circled the earth faster than the rotation of the earth.
It doesn't circle the Earth faster than the rotation of the Earth. It orbits the Earth at about 1/30th of the rotational speed of the Earth. That is to say that it takes about thirty rations of the Earth for the Moon to complete one orbit around the Earth.
If you are using the Sun's position in the sky as the reference point, the Moon completes one "Synodic month" in 29.53 days.
If you used the position of the "fixed" stars as the reference then this is called a "sidereal month" and the period is 27.55 days.
The only way moon and stars can be seen at a relative same speed and path would be if they were all close to each other and moving together over a flat earth.
Saying it doesn't make it so. Speed is relative and we aren't even talking about speed anyway, really. What we are talking about is line of sight. The angle of which changes in an inverse relationship to an object's distance. The further the distance, the less the angle of the line of sight changes with a change in position. So an object very much further away will appear to move less than a much closer object that is moving at the same absolute speed. At extreme distances, even very high rates of absolute speed will yield very little apparent motion while a very close object can move all the way across your field of view at even a very slow absolute speed.
I repeat the moon would not be moving at virtually the same speed and path as stars millions and light years away from it and us.
--Dave
Saying it doesn't make it so, David.
Saying it does not make it so.
Clete