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 precipitation 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.

Thirty percent of the earth's surface was covered in ice at the peak of the ice age, but now there is only ten percent of the earth that is covered in glacial ice; that contains seventy-five percent of the world's fresh water supply. Glaciers cover over fifteen million square kilometers and they can be over four thousand two hundred meters thick in some places. Evolutionists believe that it takes millions of years to form glaciers and the creationists believe that the ice age glaciers were made within a few hundred years from the snow pouring down during and following the flood of Noah.

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.

Noah's flood

Young earth creationists 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.

It was caused primarily by the catastrophe that the Flood had totally made the earth into a disaster area, with all the water and eruptions from the volcanic activity, making the atmosphere on the earth take on a lot of ash and soot from the volcanoes. This caused the world to become colder from the lack of sun getting it's ultraviolet rays from reaching the earth and the previously the oceans were warm from the tropical climate that once existed before the Flood on the earth. With the sun being blocked from the particles from all of the volcanoes and the heat bouncing off the warm oceans. Which would cause higher amounts of evaporation than in modern times, there was less heat making it to the surface of the earth. Turning the previous climate into a climate that has blizzards and other wild weather previously non-existent to the once quite climate of the earth. The blizzards would have been huge, bigger than any recorded in the modern world on the northern and southern part of the continents from the warm oceans and colder continents. For this caused a large amounts of ice to be formed. The creationists estimate that it took about five hundred years to accumulate to a dept of two-thousand, three-hundred feet in the northern hemisphere at it's deepest. Within two hundred years after the ice age peaked it had started melting at a rate of thirty-three feet a year along the rim of the glaciers, which still occurs today.[1]

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. Creation scientists have dated the Ice age to have taken place between approximately 2300-1800 BC.

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 global uniform temperatures.

Impact

Extinction of the Wooly Mammoth

The woolly mammoth has been extinct since the ice age. They were hunted as prey for consumption by humans, but we were not the reason that they died. The real reason was the ice age that caused them to have a lack of food supply or were frozen to death by the extremely harsh winter storms, that formed all the ice that we see today in are glaciers, that have been receding at a constant rate. The mammoth stood at fourteen feet high and had curved tusks that ranged up to eleven and a half-feet long. The male mammoth weighed at about twelve tons. The mammoth lived in valleys full of grass and vegetation, contrary to popular belief of them living in frozen tundras. The mammoth probably survived from the Flood on Noah's Ark which was large enough for one pair of the mammoths since they were considered unclean animal and all of his cousins, for example he would of been with the African elephant with his mate on the ark. They have found many bones of the woolly mammoth frozen in the ground in the tundras of the northern hemisphere. A few have been found frozen whole even with grass still in their stomach. This can be explained by the colder drier climate causing horrible wind storms worst than the Dust Bowl. The mammoth's were buried in the dust, which later froze encasing them in their icy tombs. Another way they could of been preserved, without rot or decay, was if the melting of the ice caused sudden local catastrophes that would encase them in mud and then freeze them, keeping them from turning into another creatures dinner.[2] Mammoth's according to evolution lived from two million years ago to nine thousand years ago, which was the time that the mammoth are believed to become extinct.

Migration

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.

Old earth

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

Prior to 1970, scientists believed that there was four ice ages that took over millions of years to form and to melt away the ice in the process forming different geologic features that we know today are caused by glaciers. The first ice age, they believe happened in the early Proterozoic period that happened from 2.2 to 2.4 billion years ago, the second ice age was in the late Proterozoic period, happened from 52 to 95 million years ago, the third ice age late Ordovician period was from 42.9 to 44.5 million years ago. The last ice age happened in the late Paleozoic period 2.56 to 3.38 million years ago. After 1970 a new model of Earth history was put forth suggesting that there was approximately thirty ice ages that have occured over 4.6 billion years. Evolutionists believe that every ice age has occured about one hundred thousand years in the past eight hundred-thousand years. These ancient ice ages are claimed to be found in the oldest rock in the earth's crust and then dated for how old the rock is by radiocarbon dating or by some other method that evolutionists use for evidence for the age of the many different ice ages. Evolutionists believe that the ice ages happen every one hundred thousand years, but there is no way that all that ice and snow can cause an global ice age without a lot of very wild weather.