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- From: mikec@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Micheal Cranford)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Galilean Electrodynamics?
- Keywords: creationism, magnetic field, pseudo-science
- Message-ID: <12924@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 22:05:46 GMT
- References: <schlegel.722034259@cwis>
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- Mark Schlegel asks :
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- * The past few months in Sky and Telescope magazine I have been seeing this
- * ad for a bimonthly publication called "Galilean Electrodynamics" written
- * by a group of professors. What is the story on this group? The editorial
- * board is made of up of scientists and engineers (five are listed in the ad)
- * Edit. Board:
- * Thomas Barnes, U of Texas, Prof. Emeritus
- * Howard Hayden, Univ. of Connecticut, Prof. of Physics
- * P. Parshin, Academy of Civil Aviation, St. Peterburg, Russia
- * Cynthia Whitney, Tufts Univ.
- * Editor:
- * Petr Beckmann, Prof. Emeritus of Electrical Eng., Univ. of Colorado/
- * Boulder
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- * Does anyone know about whether the papers published by this group have any
- * validity in the general physics world? They seem to believe there are
- * obvious contradictions between general rel. and observation.
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- Thomas Barnes is a young earth creationist. He claims to have proved that
- evolution could not have happened because the earth is only about 6000 years
- old. He has created (pun intended) a "model" of the earth's magnetic field
- that exhibits an exponential decay (ignoring overwhelming evidence to the
- contrary). Based on this "model" he extrapolates back 6000 years BP to get
- an "impossibly high" value for the earth's magnetic field and (illogically)
- concludes that the earth must have been "created" then. Outside of several
- credulous creationist followers, Barnes has ZERO credibility (at least in
- earth history and the earth's magnetic field).
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