Planetary Magnetism - Article
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D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. - ... secret” of scientists studying the earth’s magnetic field, which is that the main part of the field has been decaying steadily at about 7% per century since it was first measured globally in 1829.1 He showed how the decrease...

Young Age for the Moon and Earth - Article
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Thomas G. Barnes, D.Sc. - jibe with this initial state which Gentry has identified. Magnetic Evidence of a Young Earth The known decay in the earth's magnetic field and the inexorable depletion of its energy clearly point to an imminent and inevitable end of the...

Can Cosmic Collisions Create? - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... setting orbits straight and creating moons, to manufacturing magnetic fields, secular science has consistently used chance cosmic collisions and near-misses to explain the origins of a host of fine-tuned attributes. This strong reliance on lucky...

Earth's Magnetic Age: The Achilles Heel of Evolution - Article
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Thomas G. Barnes, D.Sc. - ... of the energy in the earth's main magnet, its electromagnetic dipole magnet in the conductive core of the earth. Its electric current is using up the magnet's energy. The rate of energy consumption is now known. From that information and a...

The Earth's Magnetic Field Is Young - Article
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D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. - ... earth's magnetic field is a powerful witness for a world much younger than the billions of years required by evolutionary theories. Let's start the story with the most prominent feature of the field today--its very rapid decay. The Field Is...

Youthful Mercury: Still Cooling and Shrinking - Article
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Jake Hebert, Ph.D. - ... the Mariner 10 spacecraft revealed that Mercury still has a magnetic field.5 This is because ‘planetary dynamo’ theories attempting to explain how a planet can maintain a magnetic field over eons of time require a molten liquid core...

Does Ganymede Look Young? - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... like so many unexpected discoveries of still-active magnetic fields in Solar System planets and moons, those 1998 spectra revealed electrified gas bands that “provided further evidence that Ganymede has a weak magnetic...

Beyond Neptune: Voyager II Supports Creation - Article
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D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. - ... of the creationist's theory of the origin of planetary magnetic fields by confirming two of its predictions. A main tenet of consequence of creationist theory is that planetary magnetic fields must be much younger than the billions of years...

Earth's Young Magnetic Field - Article
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Vernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - 45:18 — In the beginning, God created Earth’s magnetic field, which He designed and installed during the creation week. This field protects our planet from the deadly effects of space-generated charged particles that come from...

Atmospheres: A Narrow Zone for Life - Article
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David F. Coppedge - ... that a slight amount of gas remains. Space.com reported that magnetic vortices reach the surface where the solar wind can blast away volatiles from surface rocks by a process called sputtering.2 The spacecraft also showed extensive volcanism, some...