John Baumgardner

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John R. Baumgardner is a geophysicist, young Earth creationist, intelligent design supporter and religious fundamentalist.

Baumgardner has a Ph.D. in geophysics and space science from the University of California at Los Angeles and works at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is Adjunct Professor of Geophysics at the Institute for Creation Research.[1]

He became a Christian at 26 and has tried to prove Noah's Flood scientifically ever since, creating a computer program called Terra to model the flood.[2]

In 1985, Baumgardner joined the controversial amateur archaeologist Ron Wyatt and salvage expert David Fasold to Durupınar, Turkey for an expedition recounted in Fasold's The Ark of Noah to locate the biblical ship's remains.[3]

He is a member of the Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center.[4]

Baumgardner appeared on the documentary television series Understanding episode "Evolution".

[edit] Geological work

In addition to his work supporting creationism, Baumgardner has done a considerable amount of peer-reviewed work in plate tectonics, mantle convection, and other topics in the planetary geology of the Earth, the moon, and Mars. According to Web of Science,he has published 20 peer-reviewed papers; the most cited are

  • Bunge HP, Richards MA, Baumgardner JR. "Effect of depth-dependent viscosity on the planform of mantle convection" Nature 379 (6564): 436-438 (Feb 1 1996) cited 89 times
  • Baumgardner JR "3-Dimensional Treatment of Convective Flow in the Earth's Mantle." Journal of Statistical Physics 39(5-6) 501- (1985), cited 75 times.
  • Bunge HP, Richards MA, Baumgardner JR "A sensitivity study of three-dimensional spherical mantle convection at 10(8) Rayleigh number: Effects of depth-dependent viscosity, heating mode, and an endothermic phase change." Journal of Geophysical Research-Soild Earth, 102 (B6): 11991-12007 Jun 10 1997 cited 65 times.

He has also published papers in Science, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and other journals.

[edit] References

  1. ^ John R. Baumgardner, Ph.D. Geophysics/Space Physics, Institute for Creation Research
  2. ^ The Geophysics of God: A scientist embraces plate tectonics--and Noah's flood, Chandler Burr, U.S. News & World Report, June 8, 1997, pp. 55-58
  3. ^ David Fasold, The Ark of Noah, (New York: Wynwood, 1988), p. 7. See also Turk Reports 'Ship' Atop Mt. Ararat Associated Press, Edwin B. Greenwald, November 13, 1948.
  4. ^ John Baumgardner Biography

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