What causes an Ice Age?
An ice age results when the winter’s snows do not melt each year but are continually added to. It takes very special conditions to make an ice age. It may sound strange, but an ice age can only happen if the oceans heat up so that there is an increase in water evaporation and cooler continents that keep the snow from melting. What event in history would have lots and lots of warm water and continents that were cooler? The Flood of Noah’s time. During the Flood the fountains of the deep burst open.
Widespread underwater volcanic eruptions spewed out great amounts of lava heating ocean waters. These volcanoes also created unheard of quantities of volcanic dust; these particles reflected the sunlight back into space, making the continents colder.
Rapid continental movement also would have added enormous amounts of heat to the oceans. These warmer oceans resulted in increased evaporation and winds carried the moisture onto the cold continents. The cold continents caused the moisture in the air to condense and fall as snow. Snow on the ground did not melt during the summer because the volcanic dust blocked the sunlight. Each year the snow piled up deeper and deeper. Immediately after the Flood, ice sheets formed around the world in the higher latitudes such as Greenland and North America.
As the earth settled down, and the volcanoes stopped erupting, the volcanic dust dissipated. Eventually the oceans cooled and the sun started to melt ice sheets. Creation scientists calculate the Ice Age to have lasted about 700 years, 500 years to build up and 200 years to melt down.
Very special conditions were the mechanism for the ice age. An ice age needs lots and lots of warm water and cooler continents. What event in history would have created these special conditions? The Flood of Noah’s time.
(Source: Inspired Evidence – Michael Oard, Frozen in Time 2004)
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