Magnetic Field of the Earth - 3 of 4

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

Last time we were looking at the two opposing theories, Special Creation and Evolutionary Dynamo theories, that are used to explain the unmistakable fact that the Earth's magnetic field is weakening.

Dr. Humphreys concludes that, at present, the only working theory for the origin, fluctuations, rapid reversals, and decay of the field is a creationist theory--a theory that fits all the data. Thus, according to the best theory and data we have, the earth's magnetic field certainly is less than 100,000 years old; very likely less than 10,000 years old, and fits in well with the face-value Biblical age of 6,000 years.

To protect their long-age chronology, evolutionists hold to a reversal hypothesis. The magnetic field is said to have remained at essentially the same value during geologic time, except for intervals in which it went through a reversal, dying down to zero and rising up again with the reverse polarity. The last reversal is supposed to have taken place 700,000 years ago. But the reversal hypothesis has no valid theoretical support. That is acknowledged in Carrigan, C.R. and David Gubbins, on page 125 of the February 1979 Scientific American article "The Source of the Earth's Magnetic Field," stating that "No one has developed an explanation of why the sign reversals take place. The apparent random reversals of the earth's dipole field have remained inscrutable." Neither are there any dependable data to support the reversal hypothesis.