Ice age

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Ice core data shows the Antarctic temperature changes during the last several glacial/interglacial cycles of the present ice age and a comparison to changes in global ice volume.

An ice age is a period of time when the Earth's climate supports the global expansion of glacial ice. Glaciers develop as a result of long term snow fall or other forms of frozen precipitate resulting in compaction and expansion of the mass of ice.

Evolutionary scientists believe there have been numerous ice ages that repeat approximately every 40,000 years. The most recent is believed to have ended about 10,000 years ago. However, the actual cause of these supposed ice ages is still somewhat of a mystery. Global cooling by itself would not produce an ice age. When temperatures are low, evaporation and subsequent precipitation is also reduced. Creation scientists have dated the Ice age to 2300-1800 BC approx.

1 Ice age and the Flood
2 Migration during the Ice Age
3 Related References
4 See Also

Ice age and the Flood

The above animation is used with permission from the Illinois State Museum GIS Lab http://www.museum.state.il.us/

Creation scientists such as Michael Oard and Larry Vardiman have proposed that an ice age formed as a consequence of the global flood of Noah. Some believe that Job 37:10 and Job 38:22 might be references to the ice age.

There is clear evidence for severe climatic fluctuations in earth's history resulting in the formation of vast glaciers. However, uniformitarian scientists have failed to recognize the occurrence of the global flood, and the effects of this event. The geologic ages and ice ages, which are believed by evolutionists to have occurred over vast periods of time were actually formed as a result of the Biblical flood.

When the fountains of the great deep burst forth, hot water and lava poured out of the Earth directly into the oceans. This would have warmed the oceans increasing evaporation in the years following the flood. Volcanic ash in the air would have blocked out sunlight cooling the atmosphere producing the right conditions for a massive ice age.

The global flood severely compromised the Earth's original ecosystem, and transformed the planet into a recovering wasteland. It is in fact likely there were no polar ice caps prior to the global flood, but the earth instead possessed somewhat globally uniform temperatures.

Migration during the Ice Age

These frozen volumes of water lowered the ocean levels relative to today, providing land and ice bridges allowing the animals that left Noah's ark to reach areas that are currently inaccessible by land. The migration of the animals from the Middle East to continents such as the Americas would not have been possible without the glacial bridge known as the Bering Strait.