Robert V. Gentry
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| Robert Gentry | |
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| Fields | nuclear physicist |
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| Alma mater | University of Florida |
| Known for | Young-Earth Creationism Advocacy |
| Notable awards | Honorary Doctorate from Columbia Union College |
Robert V. Gentry is a nuclear physicist and young Earth creationist and member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who advocates his ideas of creation science including radiohaloes as evidence for a young Earth.[1]
He has a masters degree in physics from the University of Florida[1] and an honorary doctorate of sciences from Columbia Union College.[2]
Gentry has also had strong disagreements with other creationists over details of flood geology.[3]
In 1981 Gentry was a defense witness in the McLean v Arkansas case over the constitutional validity of Act 590 that mandated that "creation science" be given equal time in public schools with evolution.[4] The defense lost and Act 590 was ruled to be to be unconstitutional (a verdict that was influential on, and upheld by, the Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard).
He has also devised his own creationist cosmology and filed a lawsuit in 2001 against Los Alamos National Laboratory and Cornell University after personnel deleted 10 of his papers about his cosmology from the public preprint server arXiv.[5] On 23 March 2004, Gentry's lawsuit against arXiv was dismissed by a Tennessee court.[6]
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[edit] Bibliography
- Creation's tiny mystery (1986) ISBN 0961675314
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Numbers(2006) p280-282
- ^ "Polonium Haloes" Refuted, Thomas A. Baillieul, TalkOrigins Archive
- ^ Exchanges, Earth Science Associates
- ^ McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education
- ^ Lawsuit Filed, Earth Science Associates
- ^ Retribution denied to creationist suing arXiv over religious bias, News in Brief, [[Nature (Journal}|]], 1 April 2004
[edit] References
- Numbers, Ronald (November 30, 2006). The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition. Harvard University Press, 624 pages. ISBN 0674023390.
[edit] External links
- Earth Science Associates, Robert Gentry's website about radiohaloes.
- The Orion Foundation, Robert Gentry's site criticizing Big Bang cosmology.
- Talk Origin's critique of radiohalos
- Answers In Creation article arguing that radiohalos do not support a young earth
- A Creationist article, arguing that their view on polonium radiohalos formation have been tested and verified
- Defendant transcripts in McLean v Arkansas where you can read the transcript of his deposition.
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