John Baumgardner

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. [ [http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=research&action=index&page=research_physci_baumgardner "John R. Baumgardner, Ph.D. Geophysics/Space Physics"] , Institute for Creation Research]

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. [ [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/970616/archive_007221.htm "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]

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. [David Fasold, "The Ark of Noah", (New York: Wynwood, 1988), p. 7. See also [http://www.noahsarksearch.com/reshit.htm "Turk Reports 'Ship' Atop Mt. Ararat"] Associated Press, Edwin B. Greenwald, November 13, 1948.]

He is a member of the Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center. [http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/774 John Baumgardner Biography] ]

Baumgardner appeared on the documentary television series "Understanding" episode "Evolution".Fact|date=July 2008

elect publications

According to Web of Science,he has published 20 peer-reviewed papers; the most cited areFact|date=July 2008

*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.

References

Links

* [http://www.globalflood.org/ John Baumgardner's website]
* [http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/bios/j_baumgardner.asp John Baumgardner, Ph.D.] from Answers in Genesis
* [http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/774 "John Baumgardner"] from Intelligent Design and Evolution Awareness Center
* [http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/rncse_content/vol19/13_geologists_explain_evolution_12_30_1899.asp "Geologists Explain Evolution"] , (a review of the 2000 American Geophysical Union) Wilfred A. Elders, National Center for Science Education, December 16, 2000