Re: The Earth's magnetic field

>Humphries has recently used published data indicating that over the 30-year period 1970-2000 the energy in the earth's magnetic field has had a 1.41 +/- 0.16 % net loss of energy. He says the "At that rate, the field would lose half its energy every 1465 +/- 166 years. That rate implies the field is young." What a nonsensical extrapolation and non sequitur!<

It's also a good example of the hypocrisy of the YEC argument that "uniformitarian" extrapolation of rates is inherently atheistic. Most modern examples of unjustifiable unifromitarianism are YEC (the main exceptions that I know of are molecular clocks).

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Received on Fri Mar 19 21:13:55 2004