james bond
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Neither have you. Did you even look for an evolutionary paper to explain it?But you haven't explained HOW a flood could affect the Earth's magnetic field? We have floods every year but, so far as I know, they show ZERO effect.
Moreover, you didn't read the paper I linked which points out testable evidence with a convection sphere. What's not clear are the numerous past reversals which are still being discussed.
The global flood explains how the layers with magnetized rocks and the fossils that we discuss were laid down in a short period of time, around one year. The creation scientists have Occam's Razor on their side.
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Abstract
Strong convection in the Earth’s core during the Deluge would rapidly reverse the magnetic field
while the fossil layers were being laid down. Afterwards the field would fluctuate for several thousand
years and then begin decaying steadily. This young-earth model explains the paleomagnetic and
archeomagnetic evidence better than old-earth “dynamic” theories do."
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"Basic Physical Constraints
Since the field reversals are recorded in the fossil
strata, the reversals must have happened when
the strata were being laid down. Most young-earth
creationists (including myself) are convinced that the
Genesis Flood produced most of the fossil layers in
a single year. Therefore, since roughly 50 reversals
are recorded in the rocks, our model must average
about one reversal per week (one full cycle every two
weeks). Such changes are very rapid compared to the
ponderous thousand-year or million-year timescales
usually imagined for large changes in the field. If
the reversals were indeed rapid, we can immediately
deduce several things about the reversal mechanism
and conditions during the Flood"
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"young-earth creationists have
accumulated a lot of evidence that the earth is much
younger than millions of years. Such a short timescale
suggests that planetary magnetic fields could just be
remnants of their original fields at creation, that the
fields are essentially caused by freely decaying electric
currents in the conductive cores of the planets. The
predominantly dipole (two poles, north and south)
shape of the earth’s field and its apparent exponential
(constant percent per year) decay for the last 150 years
(Figure 1) (Barnes, 1973, pp. 222–230; Humphreys,
1983, pp. 89–94) are just what nineteenth-century
theorists predicted for free decay in a conducting
sphere (Lamb, 1883, pp. 519–549). Moreover, the
observed decay rate gives a reasonable value for the
electrical conductivity of the earth’s core, 40,000
mhos/meter (Barnes, p. 228). This value agrees with
estimates of the conductivity of likely core materials
at core temperatures and pressures (Stacey, 1967,
pp. 204–206).
The simplicity of the free-decay theory is an
advantage over the complexity of the “dynamo”
theories which advocates of an old earth must invoke
to explain the field. Unfortunately, the free-decay
theory as it stands now does not explain numerous
past reversals. One would think that young-earth
creationists would try to modify the free-decay theory;"
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