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Origin and destiny of the earth's magnetic field, (I.C.R. technical monograph, no. 4)

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At the time time this monograph was published in 1973, Thomas G. Barnes (1911-2001) "has been a professor of physics at the University of Texas at El Paso since 1936. He was director at the Schellenger Research Laboratories ... from its establishment in 1953 to 1965."

This 1973 publication was the fourth of the "technical monographs" that the ICR used to produce in the 1970s, and were intended to provide a more "scientific" response (complete with advanced mathematics) to evolution than their more "popular" works.

You can readily find online critiques online of Barnes' "science" in this monograph (mostly focusing upon supporting the "dynamo" concept, and suggesting polarity reversals).

Here are some quotations from the book:

"The most profound consequence of this theory of the source of the earth's magnetic field and the obvserved data is that it demands a recent origin. There is no uniformitarian means by which the phenomenally large current required to produce the earth's magnetic field could have been started in recent geologic time. The conclusion is reached that the earth's magnetic field is the result of the Biblical creation." (Pg. iv)
"Hence, our knowledge of the source and behavior of the earth's magnetic field rests on impeccable physics and extensive observational confirmation." (Pg. 11)
"Even today, the earth's magnetic current cannot be accurately determined from a local measurement of the magnetic field. There are too many local variations in the magnetic field." (Pg. 13)
"The time constant has been computed from the observational data ... and was found ... to have the value of 1,970 years. This is an interesting time constant. It means that the value of the earth's magnetic field in the decade of 1970 A.D. is only about 37% of what it was at the time of the birth of Christ." (Pg. 17)
"Applying the reasonable premise that this planet never had a magnetic field as great as that of a magnetic star ... the origin of the earth's magnetic field had to be more recent than 8,000 B.C. That is to say, the origin of the earth's magnetic field was less than 10,000 years ago. Just how much more recent than 10,000 years cannot be determined from present scientific knowledge." (Pg. 25)
"Others believe that the present decay rate is temporary and not indicative of its long time behavior. They contend that the earth's magnetic field has reversed at irregular intervals and only temporarily loses its magnetic field, somehow maintaining the same average value of the earth's magnetic field throughout 'geologic time.' The reversed direction of magnetizations which has been observed in some rocks is interpreted as evidence of reversals in the earth's magnetic field." (Pg. 43)
"Because of their need to justify an age of billions of years for the earth's magnetic field, evolutionists suppose that some type of dynamo has kept the current running for billions of years... but none of these dynamo theories are without its difficulties." (Pg. 44)