The Ice Age

Hi, there! Sorry for the late post! I finally have my email and all situated, so I’ll be posting more often than I was.

Now on to the more important subject, the Ice Age.

 

Have you ever wondered about the Ice Age? I’m sure you've heard of it. Maybe you heard about it in school, or maybe you watched the children’s movie about it. Well, I’ll tell you a little about the real Ice Age.

There is a lot of evidence showing that large sheets of ice once covered large masses of land. Scientists have found evidence that ice once covered most of Canada, parts of northern and central United States, northern Europe, northwest Asia, many of the mountain ranges in Eurasia, and high mountainous areas of the Southern Hemisphere and tropics. All this evidence leads towards an Ice Age. But secular scientists still don’t know what caused this enormous amount of ice covering God’s beautiful green earth.

Over the years, scientists have changed their view on the Ice Age, since none of them make the Ice Age picture clear.

Secular scientists say there were 4 ice ages spread within millions of years and lasting a very, very, long time. Then, they figured that couldn’t be possible and by 1970 said there were over 30 ice ages separated by interglacials. This belief was forced upon by the paradigm change in glaciology toward belief in the astronomical model of the ice ages. Most museums still linger towards four ice ages, and show for them. Secular scientists are so confused about the ice age. Nothing is adding up for them. (Although, nothing will ever add up for any scientist looking through a glass blindly. To see clearly we must have Jesus- The True Light of this world.) If the Ice age is so confusing for evolutionists, then what would make it easy to understand as a creationist? Evolutionists keep forgetting about the missing piece to the puzzle - The Genesis Flood.

The Genesis Flood was never proved wrong.  Scientists just went away from God and started following uniformitarianism instead. Once one goes away from God, everything will feel confusing. The devil is the author of confusion, you know.

The Flood mentioned in Genesis wasn’t just a minority. Like most people say, “Oh yeah, Noah and his family were saved from a flood that happened in the beginning of the Bible.”  No, the Genesis Flood was much more than that.  Imagine being there yourself, or that happening today (Even though, we know it will never happen again, since God promised us he would never destroy the entire world again with a flood). If this was happening today, it would be a major deal.

A global flood. Could you imagine being in an ark and watching God destroy everything. Water harshly destroying the earth - killing everything in it’s path. Like a tsunami, no one expected it. The people were warned for many years, but since it hadn’t rained on the earth, no one believed Noah when he said the earth would be destroyed by a flood. The Flood also is one of the leading causes to all the rain.

Many things happened after the Flood. You don’t think, “Noah and his family made it off the ark and the world looked the same after the water was gone”, do you?

A lot of people picture the world this way when reading about Noah getting off of the ark. But no, everything was different. The world had just experienced major trauma. The Flood formed the Grand Canyon. Washed sea creatures so high you can find their fossils at the tops of mountains. Changed climates and made life hard to live for many animals, causing them to die out. God’s beautiful land was destroyed.

A great Flood such as this would cause many after effects. One of them being, The Ice Age.

After the Flood there was one great Ice Age covering the earth. Not many ice ages, but one. The Flood caused major changes in the earth: The way the earth moves, the earth’s crust, tremendous volcanism, the earth’s climate.

A result of the Flood would have been the perturbation of the climate before it reached the equilibrium we see today.

The Bible says, much of the Flood water came from the fountains of the great deep. The great deep would be referring to the oceans. And that would be a good source for God flooding the earth to use, since the oceans cover most of the earth.

Before the flood the mountains were fairly low, and even if they were over 10,000 ft the Flood would have eroded the mountains which did exist. Monumental geological and hydrological activity occurred early in the Flood. God probably used large earthquakes to crack or rift the earth’s crust, explosively releasing water and triggering volcano activity.  Within the sedimentary rocks is evidence of incredible volcano activity that has no parallel today. After the world wide Flood, the world was covered with huge volumes of volcanic ash and gas that had spewed into the atmosphere of the earth. There are vast amounts of volcanic flows and ash in sedimentary rocks, which are the result of the Flood.

What does volcanic ash have to do with the Ice Age?

A lot!

See, all this ash and gas trapped in the stratosphere acted kind of like an anti-green house. Meaning, it reflected the sunlight back to space. So, the sun had no way of keeping the earth warm with all the volcanic gas and ash in the way. Also, during this time, infrared radiation continued to escape the earth. Although, volcanoes when erupted can be extremely hot, volcanic ash and gas are known to cool down the earth.

If you remember the volcanic eruption that happened in Tampora during 1816. The largest volcanic eruption was credited with, “The year without a summer”. All the volcanic gas and ash cooled Tambora, and also caused a series of cold spells to go through other areas of land. Usually cooling after a volcanic eruption lasts between 1-3 years as the ash and gasses slowly fall from the stratosphere.

This would have helped in causing the Ice Age, since during the Flood when all the oceans broke forth, the heavy currents would have caused volcanic eruptions throughout the entire earth (which were drowned in water though), leaving in the stratosphere much volcanic ash and gas. And since the flood was global this would have covered most of the stratosphere, leaving it pretty difficult for the sun to heat the earth, and most likely be one of the great causes for the Ice Age.

Now, you might be wondering, “Where was man during the Ice Age?”

Evolutionists say the Ice Age was where man evolved through a series of missing links, but we have the missing link, it’s called the Bible, and it’s not missing.

We know from God’s Word, that for at least the first 100 years man lived in the middle east. After Noah and his family left the ark, they remained in the Tigris-Euphrates river area until God spread everyone abroad during the time of Nimrod and the tower of Babel incident. The Tower of Babel incident (where God confounded the languages of man, because man was rebellious towards God again) happened 100-300 yeas away, and the Ice Age was well underway.  God’s Word records events that either happened during the Ice Age or right after. Since the Bible focuses mainly on events happening in the middle east, you won’t expect to read anything on the Ice Age.  The book of Job was recorded either during the Ice Age or soon afterwards. The life and times of the patriarchs were during or soon after the Ice Age as well.

After the tower of Babel incident most people went southward. The years after the Flood summers weren’t as warm and hot as they are today. Summers were cooler and wetter. And since it wasn’t as hot these people were able to live in areas now called inhospitable. There has been found post-Flood civilizations in these areas, which confuse many a secular scientist who say the land is too hot for people to have lived in.

Thankfully we don’t have to be confused since we have God’s Word and understand the summers were cooler, making it easier for people to live in these areas.

A few hundred years after the Flood, during the Ice Age, the Sahara Desert had much life in it. We know this due to the remains of aquatic animals and the extensive rock art in the Sahara Desert.

Now the people that navigated northward probably had no idea that an ice sheet existed. They were probably used to the warmer temperatures in the middle east.  Just as Scandinavia is now-a-days, the days for people in that direction were darker and cooler. (Today in Denmark the sun comes up at either 7 or 8 AM and goes down at 4 PM. Not much daylight there!)

Ahh! Another question, do you have? Where did the idea for cavemen come from?

Those European “cavemen” so mentioned in schoolbooks and such like were actually people just living in caves.  Not ape-like creatures living like animals in caves. When the people moved northward the warmest places to live were caves. These people were not ape-like in any way. They were probably much more intelligent seeing that they could live in such harsh brute weather.

So as we see, man spread out all over the world during the Ice Age and learned how to live in the environment changes.

Why did God cause an Ice Age?

God has had a purpose for absolutely everything He has done. But since most of the Bible was written after the Ice Age, it’s hard to know God’s reason for the Ice Age. There are many things not mentioned in the Bible that God has used for a purpose for man. God only includes what He deems necessary for our daily walk with Him.

The Ice Age was a result of the Flood, and the climate changes. The Ice Age occurred in the far north areas, or in the mountains, way away from most mankind causing no harm to them. God could have used the Ice Age to help repopulate the people. Mid winters and cooler summers allowed people to cross the Sahara Desert without over-heating. And also aided people into going towards Africa, and go across towards North America.

Job is probably the only book written during or close after the Ice Age. It is possible Job wrote about the Ice Age, seeing how he mentions snow and ice, that he observed, but Job could have also been observing winter. Only God knows.

God has given us a book which has all the science answers we will need in life. It’s called, The Bible.

I hope this helped you understand the Ice Age more.

God bless!