The Mystery of Earth's Magnetic Field - Article
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D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. - ... earth's magnetic field has been a mystery to man ever since 13th-century philosophers first noticed lodestones (magnetic rocks) turning north.1 In 1600, A.D. William Gilbert, Queen Elizabeth's physician, shed light on the mystery by showing...

Swimming Upstream: Navigation Systems in Migrating Salmon - Article
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Various Authors - ... Salmon possess a third navigational tool—a magnetic compass. These amazing fish can navigate by comparing their directional heading to a magnetic map of their surroundings. Authors of a 2005 study had a hard time imagining...

Scientific Evidence for Recent Creation
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... blue stars, Saturn’s heat, and Earth’s magnetic field to radiocarbon in coal, diamond, and fossils to mutation buildup in living creatures—confirm a biblical age of the universe of thousands, not billions, of...

Bacterial Compasses Point to Creation - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - can detect direction with ultra-tiny magnets that use bits of magnetic metals organized into structures called “magnetosomes.” Magnetosomes automatically orient to the earth’s magnetic field, and the bacteria use this information...

Best Creation News of 2013: Astronomy - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... recent and watery lunar origins.1 The moon’s magnetic features also support a recent origin by design. First, the moon still has a weak magnetic field today, even though a theoretical field that fits the moon’s size can only...

Tackling The Big Problems - Dr. Russ Humphreys Joins ICR - Article
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John D. Morris, Ph.D. - ... interested in bolstering the young-earth argument related to magnetic field decay. Since that time, his participation in creation research has been stellar, and increasingly fruitful. In particular, he has collaborated with ICR's Dr. Steve...

The Best Creation Science Updates of 2012: Space Sciences - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... creation was most clearly confirmed by 2012 measurements of magnetic fields. Although scientists produced the most detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy, they still "have been puzzled over the origin of these galactic magnetic fields."8...

Blue Stars Confirm Recent Creation - Article
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Jason Lisle, Ph.D. - ... the formation of a star. Clouds of gas always have a weak magnetic field, which would be concentrated if the cloud were compressed. This dramatically increases the field strength. The magnetic pressure would halt a shrinking cloud and drive it...

Spacecraft Model Construction for Isolated Families - Article
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Jake Hebert, Ph.D. - creation. The Mariner 10 space probe found that Mercury had a magnetic field. However, secular scientists think a planetary magnetic field requires a hot, molten interior. Yet tiny Mercury’s interior should have already frozen solid if it is...

Messenger from Mercury - Article
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David F. Coppedge - ... the planet's most unexpected features is its global magnetic field. Mercury should not have a magnetic field. According to the secular consensus, a planet needs a molten interior for convection to generate a magnetic dynamo. Sean Solomon,...