Dr. John Baumgardner

• PhD, Geophysics and Space Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1983
• MS, Geophysics and Space Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1981
• MS, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1970
• BS, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1968

John Baumgardner was working on a PhD 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 PhD 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 PhD 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 PhD in geophysics and space physics, he accepted a position as a staff scientist in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he has continued his research in planetary mantle dynamics, including the potential for catastrophic mantle overturn. He has presented papers describing this mechanism for the Genesis Flood, now known as “catastrophic plate tectonics,” at three International Conferences on Creationism held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Baumgardner’s current technical work at Los Alamos includes development of a new global ocean model for investigating climate change. He is also currently a member of the Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth (RATE) committee and an adjunct faculty member of the Institute for Creation Research.

Interviews

• An Interview with Dr John Baumgardner (The Lookout, February 8, 1998)