Thomas Barnes (creationist)

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Thomas G. Barnes is a creationist who posited that the magnetic field of the Earth was decaying at an exponential rate. Barnes claimed to have calculated that the half-life of Earth's magnetic field was approximately 1,400 years. He published these ideas in a 1973 book, Origin and Destiny of the Earth's Magnetic Field, which was taken up by the creationist establishment. Today, most of his theories within the book have been discredited, largely as Barnes failed to take experimental uncertainties into account and used an obsolete model of the interior of the earth.[1]

Barnes received an honorary Sc.D. degree from Hardin-Simmons University, a Christian school.[2]

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