Allen Magnuson is a young-earth creationist affiliated with the worldwideflood project (“Mission: To define a feasible design range for Noah’s Ark”),
and thus with the flood geology movement. Magnuson does have a PhD in Theoretical & Applied Mechanics,
which is unrelated to the fields in which he conducts his pseudoscience, but
credentials are deeply cherished by pseudoscientists, and Magnuson is himself
for instance a signatory to the Discovery Institute’s petition A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism.
Magnuson himself is not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination, however.
According to Magnuson, he used to consider “the
book of Genesis to be an allegory or legend. While I was preparing [a Sunday
school] lesson, I realized that the Ark’s dimensions and proportions as given
in Genesis 6:15 were those of a modern cargo ship. It became clear to me at
that point that God designed the Ark as a seagoing ship with the animals as the
cargo.” This is not how data work.
The other people involved in the
worldwideflood project are:
- Jim Lovett, who is currently working for Answers in Genesis at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, designing the exhibits for their Ark Park.
- Jim King, who “led discussions on the effect of hull form on the seakeeping of Noah’s Ark for the AiG Creation Museum.”
Diagnosis: Pseudoscience hardly comes more
obviously pseudoscientific than the delusional nonsense Magnuson is engaged in.
Probably relatively harmless, though.
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