In Journal of Creation 35 (3): 12–14, December 2021

Although the ability of the Flood to explain the Ice Age is one of the great strengths of the Creation model, Bible skeptics claim the vast ages assigned to deep Greenland and Antarctic ice cores are insurmountable challenges to the Bible’s 6,000-year chronology.

Three long ice cores have been drilled and extracted from the East Antarctic ice sheet: the EPICA Dome C, Vostok, and Dome Fuji cores. Secular scientists have assigned ages to the bottoms of these cores: 800 thousand, 400 thousand, and 720 thousand years, respectively.

A recent study claims that a majority (54%) of Americans now accept as true the statement “Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals.”¹ Unfortunately, given the increased secularization of American society, this increased

Scientists have found genetic evidence suggesting that legume trees emerged from separate African tree populations during the Ice Age.¹ This conclusion is consistent with the creation model of a post-Flood Ice Age. Lead researcher Dr. Rosalía Piñeiro of the University of Exeter was quoted as saying,