My chat with Dr. Russell Humphreys
Trevor Sides
Issue date: 2/22/07 Section: Opinion
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Dr. Russell Humphreys is a ridiculously smart physicist and creationist. He received his B.S. in physics from Duke University in 1963 and his Ph.D. in physics from Louisiana State University in 1972.
From 1979 to 2001, Dr. Humphreys worked for Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, dealing with nuclear physics, geophysics, pulsed power research, theoretical atomic and nuclear physics, and the Particle Beam Fusion Project. At Sandia, he won two awards, including an award for excellence for contributions to light ion-fusion target theory.
In 2001 Dr. Humphreys retired from Sandia to work fulltime for the Institute for Creation Research (ICR). Once an atheist, Dr. Humphreys is now a Bible-believing, young-earth creationist. Tonight at 7 p.m. in the Lory Student Center Theater, Dr. Humphreys will be presenting evidence that our earth is only thousands of years old, not billions.
TREVOR SIDES: Dr. Humphreys, it's an honor. Thank you for making the time to talk today.
DR. HUMPHREYS: Well, thank you, Trevor.
SIDES: You spent part of your time with Sandia National Laboratories working in nuclear weapons research. If I asked if you ever spent time in nuclear weapons field testing, would you have to kill me?
HUMPHREYS: No, but I couldn't answer.
SIDES: Fair enough. For your dissertation, you wrote on "cosmic rays and ultrahigh energy nucleon-nucleon interactions," which I have no idea what you're talking about, but it tells me you're a pretty smart guy.
HUMPHREYS: I think the Lord has made me smarter as my career has progressed. I look back at the beginning of grad school before I accepted Christ, and the Lord has been straightening out my mind through study of his word and science.
SIDES: There's this stereotype that creationists don't make good scientists and that science and the Bible can't go together. How has this come about?
HUMPHREYS: Mainly because evolutionists have the PR microphone and a hammer-lock on most of the media. Evolutionists want the public to believe certain things about creationists. The public doesn't know any different. It is a myth. The people running academics and the media have been saying all this without proving it.
From 1979 to 2001, Dr. Humphreys worked for Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, dealing with nuclear physics, geophysics, pulsed power research, theoretical atomic and nuclear physics, and the Particle Beam Fusion Project. At Sandia, he won two awards, including an award for excellence for contributions to light ion-fusion target theory.
In 2001 Dr. Humphreys retired from Sandia to work fulltime for the Institute for Creation Research (ICR). Once an atheist, Dr. Humphreys is now a Bible-believing, young-earth creationist. Tonight at 7 p.m. in the Lory Student Center Theater, Dr. Humphreys will be presenting evidence that our earth is only thousands of years old, not billions.
TREVOR SIDES: Dr. Humphreys, it's an honor. Thank you for making the time to talk today.
DR. HUMPHREYS: Well, thank you, Trevor.
SIDES: You spent part of your time with Sandia National Laboratories working in nuclear weapons research. If I asked if you ever spent time in nuclear weapons field testing, would you have to kill me?
HUMPHREYS: No, but I couldn't answer.
SIDES: Fair enough. For your dissertation, you wrote on "cosmic rays and ultrahigh energy nucleon-nucleon interactions," which I have no idea what you're talking about, but it tells me you're a pretty smart guy.
HUMPHREYS: I think the Lord has made me smarter as my career has progressed. I look back at the beginning of grad school before I accepted Christ, and the Lord has been straightening out my mind through study of his word and science.
SIDES: There's this stereotype that creationists don't make good scientists and that science and the Bible can't go together. How has this come about?
HUMPHREYS: Mainly because evolutionists have the PR microphone and a hammer-lock on most of the media. Evolutionists want the public to believe certain things about creationists. The public doesn't know any different. It is a myth. The people running academics and the media have been saying all this without proving it.
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Roy Smith
posted 2/22/07 @ 6:01 AM MST
Thank you Trevor. This was very well done. I only hope the presentation by Dr Humphreys is well received by students and professors of the school. He has facts that need to be exposed to minds seeking truth. (Continued…)
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