Creation Science and the Cause of the Ice Age
The formerly United States had a surprisingly bad winter in 1970s, so scientists began prognosticating that another ice age was on the way. In fact, there was no stopping it. This notion was suddenly left to chill and the scaremongers instead came up with global warming caused by humans.
Conventional geologists and astronomers presuppose millions of years and that there were many ice ages. They invoke the fundamentally-flawed Milankovitch Cycles to explain that changes in Earth's orbit caused ice ages.
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| Glacier sliding down a mountain, FreeImages / Ainhize Barrena |
For multiple ice ages? Not really. The evidence is assumed, and what little they have can be explained by other processes. There is a passel of evidence for the single Ice Age, though. Sheets of ice still exist in Antarctica and Greenland, mostly. There is physical evidence that ice sheets had intruded further south than they are today.
A problem with the unavoidable coming ice age "science" in the 1970s is that scientists did not dig deeply enough into the causes of an ice age. Indeed, mainstream scientists really cannot formulate a reasonable model of how one happened. Several conditions have to be met, and if one cause is proposed, it presents problems for another cause — and for the model itself.
Okay, smart guy! Can creation scientists explain the Ice Age, which you people say was only one?
Yes, yes we can. Secularists get burrs under their saddles because if they do not have a satisfactory explanation, nobody has one. Well, as they presuppose deep time, naturalism, and all that good stuff, creationists presuppose that the Bible is true and that it is historical. If there was a global Flood at the time of Noah, there should be tell-tale signs of it all over the world. Those are clearly seen. Further, there is evidence of long-term effects of the Flood. One of those is (drum roll) the Ice Age.
Secular scientists have challenged creation scientists to explain the Ice Age. Also, they claim that there were numerous ice ages, possibly up to fifty, at intervals of 100,000 or 40,000 years over the past 2.6 million years. Bible believers need to respond to this challenge by appealing to 1 Thessalonians 5:21: “Examine everything carefully; hold fast that which is good” (NASB). As we maintain confidence in God’s word we need to carefully examine the observed data and be wary of how naturalism (‘there is no God’) has influenced its interpretations.
To chill out and read the rest, see "What caused the Ice Age?" Also of interest is "The unique post-Flood Ice Age."