The Ice Age
Scientists generally believe many ice age cycles occurred. The Milankovitch theory, the most prominent explanation, fails to produce the extreme conditions needed to cause even one ice age. The creation model offers a powerful alternative that points to a single ice age that began soon after the Genesis Flood.
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Were there many ice ages or just one?
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Does an ice age fit with biblical history?
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What does the book of Job suggest about an ice age?
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How could Noah’s Flood relate to an ice age on Earth?
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What problems plague the Milankovitch theory of ice ages?
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Was There an Ice Age?
Secular scientists believe there have been at least five major ice ages during Earth's history, and the most recent is thought to have begun about 2.6 million years ago....Because secular discussions of ice ages involve millions of years, Bible-believing Christians may wonder: Was there really an ice age?
The Bible Best Explains the Ice Age
Many Christians are convinced that scientific data demand millions of years for Earth’s history and are therefore dissuaded from believing the Bible’s doctrine of a recent creation. Yet a belief in millions of years actually prevents secular scientists from finding solutions for many mysteries of Earth history—solutions that can be found in the pages of God’s Word.
Debunking an Iconic Uniformitarian Ice Age Theory
The Milankovitch, or astronomical, theory holds that the timing of Ice Ages is controlled by slow changes in Earth’s orbital and rotational motions that vary the way sunlight falls on the earth. A famous 1976 paper in Science...seemed to confirm the theory. These results depended critically upon an assumed age of 700,000 years for the most recent reversal of Earth’s magnetic field. Yet, conventional scientists now claim this magnetic reversal occurred 780,000 years ago. What did this age revision do to the evidence for the Milankovitch theory?
Jobs' Icy Vocabulary
However, beyond chronological data for a young earth, does the Bible provide evidence that corroborates the idea of a recent ice age? Yes. Although ignored by most readers, the vocabulary of the book of Job actually corroborates the scenario of a recent ice age caused by the global climate conditions that likely followed the worldwide Flood.
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