The Institute for Creation Research

Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field During the Genesis Flood - Article
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D. Russell Humphreys, Ph.D. - ... core during the Deluge would rapidly reverse the magnetic field while the fossil layers were being laid down. Afterwards the field would fluctuate for several thousand years and then begin decaying steadily. This young-earth model...

Mercury's Fading Magnetic Field Fits Creation Model - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... including the earth, generate magnetic fields that encompass the space around them. Observations have shown that, like earth's, the planet Mercury's magnetic field is rapidly breaking down, and NASA's Messenger spacecraft...

Earth's Magnetic Field - Article
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John D. Morris, Ph.D. - ... decay of earth's magnetic field has been one of the strongest evidences for the Bible's recent creation doctrine. This concept, developed originally by Dr. Thomas Barnes in 1971, was updated and revised by Dr. Russell Humphreys in 1983. Here are...

Earth's Young Magnetic Field Revisited - Article
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Vernon R. Cupps, Ph.D. - ... sustains Earth’s magnetic field? Creationists and secularists disagree on the answer, but a recent update from Physics Today seems to lend support to the creationists’ hypothesis that the magnetic field is both recent and...

Magnetic Field Data Confirm Creation Model - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... the earth's magnetic field strength is steadily decreasing, but in the past it fluctuated. A recent study of an ancient copper mine in southern Israel indicated just how quickly those fluctuations could have occurred. What might have caused...

Mercury's Magnetic Crust Fulfills Creation Prediction - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - match planetary evolution models, and its surface geology and magnetic field are too active for it to be billions of years old.1, 2, 3 New data from the MESSENGER—the spacecraft that has been probing the dense planet's surface since...

Northern Lights Display Earth's Designed Protection - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... material in the sun gets twisted up by rotating physical and magnetic forces. And if solar activity is particularly violent, the flare can get pinched off and thrown outward in a "coronal mass ejection," or CME.2 Photons, electrons and protons are...

The Moon's Latest Magnetic Mysteries - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... story of the rise and fall of the moon's magnetic field constantly energizes planetary scientists. Simply put, under secular magnetism models, the moon is too small to have maintained its charge as long as evolutionists imagine and as...

Messenger Spacecraft Confirms: Mercury Is Unique - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... been shown to be false) was the only explanation offered for magnetic fields on rocky planets that are supposed to be billions of years old. However, this theory requires a molten magma core. And Mercury is so small—only slightly larger than the...

Do Carbon Ages Refute a Biblical Timeline? - Article
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Brian Thomas, Ph.D. - ... ratios in very old samples.1 In particular, Earth’s magnetic field strength has weakened since the Flood. Almost two centuries of measurements show that Earth’s magnetic field still decays. Back when it was much stronger, it would...