Robert V. Gentry

Robert V. Gentry

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Robert V. Gentry is a nuclear physicist and young Earth creationist and member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who advocates his ideas of creation science including radiohaloes as evidence for a young Earth.Numbers(2006) p280-282]

He has a masters degree in physics from the University of Florida and an honorary doctorate of sciences from Columbia Union College. [ [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/po-halos/gentry.html "Polonium Haloes" Refuted] , Thomas A. Baillieul, TalkOrigins Archive]

Claims and criticism

Gentry has also had strong disagreements with other creationists over details of flood geology. [ [http://www.halos.com/faq-replies/index.htm Exchanges] , Earth Science Associates]

In 1981 Gentry was a defense witness in the McLean v Arkansas case over the constitutional validity of Act 590 that mandated that "creation science" be given equal time in public schools with evolution. [ [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mclean-v-arkansas.html McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education] ] The defense lost and Act 590 was ruled to be to be unconstitutional (a verdict that was influential on, and upheld by, the Supreme Court in Edwards v. Aguillard).

He has also devised his own creationist cosmology and filed a lawsuit in 2001 against Los Alamos National Laboratory and Cornell University after personnel deleted 10 of his papers about his cosmology from the public preprint server arXiv. [ [http://www.halos.com/faq-replies/arxiv-lawsuit.htm Lawsuit Filed] , Earth Science Associates] On 23 March 2004, Gentry's lawsuit against arXiv was dismissed by a Tennessee court. [ [http://www.orionfdn.org/papers/nature-04-01-2004.htm Retribution denied to creationist suing arXiv over religious bias] , News in Brief, Nature (Journal), 1 April 2004]

His self-published book "Creation's Tiny Mystery" was reviewed by Geologist Gregg Wilkerson who said it has several logical flaws and concluded "the book is a source of much misinformation about current geologic thinking and confuses fact with interpretation." He also noted the book contains much of an autobiography and explained "In general I don't think educators will find its worth their time to tread through this creationist's whining." [Gregg Wilkerson, "Creation's tiny mystery" Review" in "Reviews of Creationist Books" ed Liz Rank Hughes, National Center for Science Education, 1992. page 55 ISBN 0939873524]

Bibliography

*"Creation's tiny mystery". Knoxville, Tenn.: Earth Science Associates, (1986) ISBN 0961675314

Notes

References

*cite book
last = Numbers
first = Ronald
authorlink = Ronald Numbers
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title = The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, Expanded Edition
publisher = Harvard University Press
date=November 30, 2006
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pages = 624 pages
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isbn = 0674023390

External links

* [http://www.halos.com/ Earth Science Associates] , Robert Gentry's website about radiohaloes.
* [http://www.orionfdn.org/ The Orion Foundation] , Robert Gentry's site criticizing Big Bang cosmology.
* [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/po-halos/ Talk Origin's critique of radiohalos]
* [http://www.answersincreation.org/bookreview/tnb/thousands_not_billions_chapter5.htm Answers In Creation article arguing that radiohalos do not support a young earth]
* [http://www.antievolution.org/projects/mclean/new_site/index.htm#Defendant's%20transcript/ Defendant transcripts in McLean v Arkansas] where you can read the transcript of his deposition.


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