Re: AIG comment on the Ice Age

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, burgytwo@juno.com wrote:

> From AIG this week:
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> Q: Do creationists believe in an ice age?
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> A: We certainly do. But we don’t believe in ice ages over millions of years. The Ice Age was actually a consequence of Noah’s Flood.
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> The Bible tells us that, at the time of the Flood, “fountains of the great deep” broke open all over the earth (Genesis 7:11). This probably means there was volcanic action. The floodwaters would have been warmed by these volcanic explosions. This would cause warm oceans and cool land near the end of the Flood, resulting in a lot of evaporation.
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> Because of all this water in the atmosphere, there would have been great storms at the poles. A lot of ice and snow would have formed. Over a period of hundreds of years after the Flood, we believe that this ice accumulated and caused what we now know as the Ice Age. Then, as the temperatures of the land and oceans started to stabilize, the ice would have started to melt and recede to where it is today.
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> The Ice Age was actually a result of the Flood of Noah’s day!
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> So there you have it. So simple. So neat. So much at variance with the data of science.
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> Burgy
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>

Yes, it is much at variance with the data of science, and when they try to
explain away this variance, they often come up with something that is at
variance with the Bible. For example, ice cores from Greenland and
Antarctica reveal hundreds of thousands of annual layers, not just the few
thousand that YEC would imply. The explanation that I have seen them give
is that there were huge temperature swings several times in a year. This
would contradict God's promise that there would be no disruption of the
seasons (Gen. 8:22).

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
Received on Sat Apr 29 16:13:39 2006