Talk:Russell Humphreys

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I attended one of Dr. Humphreys lectures and found his explanations of human evolution and fossil records to be overly simplified. He states there are not enough Stone Age skeletons to defend evolution. In his pamphlet "they [ancient Homo sapiens] would have buried at least eight billion bodies. If the evolutionary time scale is correct, buried bones should be able to last for much longer than 200,000 years, so many of the supposed eight billion stone age skeletons should still be around." Dr. Humphreys does not take into account the required conditions for an intact fossil to exist. Only under rare conditions are bodies preserved. Fossils have to survive breaking, scattering, and destruction. Animals frequently scatter bones, fossils are subjected to erosion and many are lost under water with floods over thousands of years. The fact is most of the earth hasn't been excavated and we are still finding new fossils every year. I found all of the arguments he made about archaeological remains to be based on simplified ideas that ignore many of the factual evidence archaeologists have collected.

An incredibly biased article. One might just as well have titled it, "Russell Humphreys - He's Wrong, and Here's Why".

[edit] Same as above

The person writing the article could at least try to hide his hate towards Mr. Russell Humphreys... Claiming "some people don't agree with him" is not enough for me.


[edit] The article could use some work

The article isn't written to a very high standard. It makes many claims about Dr Humphreys and his detractors in a very haphazard fashion.

Breaking the article down into sections on each of Dr Humphreys' works and then discussing them would make more sense.

[edit] Humphreys Bibliography

I've extracted a bibliography of Humphreys' writings in the scientific literature from the NASA Physics Database. I think I've correctly distinguished D. Russell Humphreys from the other D. Humphreys in the system.

Query Results from the ADS Database Retrieved 10 abstracts, starting with number 1. Total number selected: 10.

  • Humphreys, D. R., Baumgardner, J. R., Snelling, A. A., & Austin, S. A. 2003, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts Recently Measured Helium Diffusion Rate for Zircon Suggests Inconsistency With U-Pb Age for Fenton Hill Granodiorite
  • Baumgardner, J. R., Humphreys, D. R., Snelling, A. A., & Austin, S. A. 2003, AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts The Enigma of the Ubiquity of 14C in Organic Samples Older Than 100 ka
  • Sanford, T. W. L., Humphreys, D. R., Poukey, J. W., Marder, B. M., Halbleib, J. A., Crow, J. T., Spielman, R. B., & Mock, R. C. 1994, Unknown Preradiation studies for non-thermal Z-pinch wire load experiments on Saturn
  • Humphreys, D. R., Francavilla, T. L., Gubser, D. U., & Wolf, S. A. 1987, Presented at the 6th Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Pulsed Power Conference, Arlington, Va., 29 Jun. 1987 Progress toward a superconducting opening switch
  • Cook, D. L., Allshouse, G. O., Bailey, J., Barr, G. W., Boyes, J. D., Burgess, E. L., Boyer, W. B., Cap, J. S., Coats, R. S., Dreike, P. L., Fifer, H. G., Furaus, J. P., Gerber, R. A., Goldsmith, S., Goldstein, S. A., Hamil, R. A., Humphreys, D. R., Leeper, R. J., McDaniel, D. H., Martin, T. H., Mendel, C. W., Jr., Miller, P. A., Mix, L. P., Neau, E. L., Olsen, J. N., Peterson, G. D., Prestwich, K. R., Quintenz, J. P., Rochau, G. E., Rosenthal, S. E., Rovang, D. C., Ruiz, C. L., Schneider, L., Seamons, L. O., Seidel, D. B., Simmons, T. N., Slutz, S. A., Stinnett, R. W., Stygar, W. A., Sweeney, M. A., Tolk, K. M., Turman, B. N., Wilson, J. M., & Van Devender, J. P. 1986, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Progress in light ion beam fusion research on PBFA II
  • Turman, B. N., Martin, T. H., Neau, E. L., Humphreys, D. R., Bloomquist, D. D., Cook, D. L., Goldstein, S. A., Schneider, L. X., McDaniel, D. H., & Wilson, J. M. 1985, Presented at the 5th IEEE Pulsed Power Conf., Washington, D.C., 10 Jun. 1985 PBFA 2: A 100 TW pulsed power driver for the inertial confinement fusion program
  • Humphreys, D. R., Penn, K. J., Cap, J. S., Adams, R. G., Seamen, J. F., & Turman, B. N. 1985, Presented at the 5th IEEE Pulsed Power Conf., Washington, D.C., 10 Jun. 1985 Rimfire: A six megavolt laser-triggered gas-filled switch for PBFA 2
  • Adams, R. G., Humphreys, D. R., Woodworth, J. R., Dillon, M. M., Green, D., & Seamen, J. F. 1984, Presented at the 16th Power Modulator Symp., Arlington, Va., 17 Jun. 1984 Ultraviolet laser triggering of the 6 MV PBFA-2 gas switch
  • Levit, L. B., Humphreys, D. R., & Porter, L. G. 1974, Nuclear Instruments and Methods Wide range multi-channel analog switch
  • Coxell, H., Gillespie, C. R., Huggett, R. W., Humphreys, D. R., Pinkau, K., & MacKeown, P. K. 1969, International Cosmic Ray Conference Studies of hadron interactions at energies around 10 TeV using an ionization spectrometer-emulsion chamber combination

Note that most of his publications, from his graduate student days through his work at Sandia labs, either concern the design of high voltage switching circuits or relate to the scientific results gained using the switching circuits on which he worked. The two most recent papers on radioisotope dating (which are only conference abstracts and not peer-reviewed papers) appeared after he left Sandia and began working with the Institute for Creation Research. His career profile is more that of an engineer than a research scientist. --SteveMcCluskey 13:50, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

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