John Baumgardner, Ph.D.
Biography
John Baumgardner was working on a Ph.D. in electrical engineering when he discovered
the reality of Jesus in a dramatic way through a group Bible study of the Gospel
of John. After a four-year tour of duty at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, where
he was engaged in gas dynamic laser research, he joined the staff of Campus Crusade
for Christ. Observing the deliberate use of evolution to assault and destroy the
faith of Christian college students, Dr Baumgardner began to develop and present
classroom lectures and evening forums to expose evolution’s false claims.
Upon realizing that Noah’s Flood involved a planetary-scale tectonic catastrophe,
he left Campus Crusade to begin a Ph.D. program in geophysics at UCLA in order to
obtain the expertise and credentials to address the problem of the mechanism of
the Genesis Flood at a professional scientific level. His Ph.D. thesis research
involved the development of a 3-D spherical-shell finite-element model for the earth’s
mantle, a program now known as TERRA.
Upon completing his Ph.D. in geophysics and space physics, he accepted a position
as a staff scientist in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory,
where he continued his research in planetary mantle dynamics, including the potential
for catastrophic mantle overturn. He presented his work describing this mechanism
for the Genesis Flood, now known as ‘catastrophic plate tectonics,’
at six International Conferences on Creationism held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Dr Baumgardner’s technical work at Los Alamos included development of a new
global ocean model for investigating climate change. He served as a member of the
Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (RATE) team and led the RATE research effort
on carbon-14. He retired from Los Alamos in 2004 and joined the Institute for Creation
Research in 2005 where he helped develop a state-of-the-art computer program named
Mendel’s Accountant for modeling of the processes of mutation and natural
selection. In 2008 he joined Logos Research Associates, a collaborative network
of Christian research scientists whose focus is origins and earth history issues
from a Biblical perspective.
Education
- B.S., Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1968
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1970
- M.S., Geophysics and Space Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1981
- Ph.D., Geophysics and Space Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1983
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