Mystery of Mammoth Extinction

Mammoths seemed to be doing rather well during the Ice Age, but the number shrank and eventually they all joined the choir invisible. Scientists want to know why. A couple of the major camps slap leather with each other because they think they have the correct answer. Based on uniformitarian deep time, of course.

One camp thinks that the human population surged and the Clovis people (possibly the first Americans) hunted them to extinction. Spear marks like the ones the Clovis gang used were found on woolly mammoth skeletons, but this idea has flaws.

Mammoths image, Flickr / Andrew Wilkinson (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Another idea is that mammoths died off because of climate change. (Yes, there is such a thing, but not the kind used by leftist fearmongers.) The scientists who think that the critters died from it point out that spears were unlikely to be so effective in hunting, and the marks were instead from harvesting the meat. This scenario has many problems as well, so secularists have no answer for the demise of the mammoths.

Creation science models have a plausible explanation. There are many factors of the climate change involved in the Ice Age, which would have been caused by the Genesis Flood. The early part of the Ice Age would have had moderate summers and winters. Later, the temperatures would have become more extreme. Large animals could not have adapted to the rapidly changing climate. 

Uniformitarian scientists are still battling over what caused about 67% of mammals over 45 kg to go extinct after their ‘last ice age’. In some cases, extinction occurred on one continent but not on others. The percentage of extinctions varies on each continent (table 1) and includes mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, huge ground sloths, glyptodonts, toxodons, and diprotodons. Examples of mammals extirpated from North America, but not elsewhere, include the horse and camel.

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