John Baumgardner

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John R. Baumgardner is an American

geophysicist.[1][2]

Biography

Baumgardner earned a

finite element code designed to solve problems in mantle convection.[6] In 1994 he presented research at a geophysics conference stating that the slip-sliding geologic plates that cover the Earth might once have moved thousands of times faster than they do today.[2] In 1997, U.S. News & World Report described him as "the world's pre-eminent expert in the design of computer models for geophysical convection".[3]

Baumgardner is a

In 1985, Baumgardner joined the amateur adventurer 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.[7] Baumgardner did not support Wyatt's and Fasold's claims to have found a boat-shaped 'object' which was the Ark. He argued that the object was a natural formation.[8][9]

Select publications

According to Web of Science, he has published 20 peer-reviewed papers, including:

References

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  2. ^ a b Begley, Sharon (September 15, 1996). "Heretics in the Laboratory". Newsweek. Vol. 128, no. 1–14. p. 82.
  3. ^ a b c Burr, Chandler (8 June 1997). "The Geophysics of God: A scientist embraces plate tectonics--and Noah's flood". U.S. News & World Report. pp. 55–8. Archived from the original on 10 August 2007.
  4. OCLC 753781044
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  5. ^ "The Epiphany Project". icr.org. Institute for Creation Research. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  6. S2CID 121461665
    . Cited in 190 references
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  8. ^ Baumgardner, John (26 September 1996). "Letter From John Baumgardner: Regarding the claims of Ron Wyatt". tentmaker.org. Hermann, MO: Tentmaker Ministries. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  9. ^ "Amazing ark expose". Creation Magazine. Vol. 14, no. 4. September 1992.

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