Ice Age
The Ice Age was a period of several hundred years that began within a short time following the global Flood of Noah’s Day. During this time, global temperatures cooled and glaciers covered one-third of Earth’s surface. The Flood’s after-effects, such as warmer oceans and cooler air temperatures, created the necessary conditions.
From Flood Geology
When Was The Ice Age?
The Bible gives us the big picture of human history—as well as some critical details—which helps us narrow down when the ice built up and then melted away. After two centuries of research, we now have enough information to begin recreating scenes from the rise and fall of the Ice Age.
What Started the Ice Age?
Two particular aspects of the Flood were instrumental in causing the Ice Age: (1) extensive volcanic activity during and after the Flood, and (2) the warm oceans following the Flood. We know the extent of the Ice Age because the glaciers left features on the landscape similar to features we observe around glaciers today.
Woolly Mammoth Mystery
Woolly mammoths probably died after the Flood because there are thousands of carcasses scattered across Alaska and Siberia resting above Flood deposits. There must have been sufficient time for the mammoths to have repopulated these regions after the Flood. The post-Flood Ice Age provides an explanation for the mystery of the woolly mammoths.
Gene Study Suggests Native Americans Came from Siberia
As people groups spread out across Asia and into Africa and Europe, a population traversed a landbridge connecting Siberia to North America (a landbridge since submerged in the Bering Strait). From there, the group populated the continent and diversified both genetically and culturally.
Articles About Ice Age
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March 1, 2020 from Answers Magazine
Secular scientists struggle to explain what caused the cyclical ice ages that many believe happened in the past.
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Was Mammoth Extinction Caused by Rapid Global Warming?Nov. 28, 2015
Both the Ice Age and the many millions of woolly mammoths buried in Siberian permafrost have been major mysteries for about years despite numerous theories.
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Book ChapterDo Ice Cores Show Many Tens of Thousands of Years?Feb. 16, 2014 from Frozen in Time
From the top of the Greenland ice sheet, glaciologists further claim that they can count the annual layers downward. They arrive at 110,000 years for the top 90 percent. Is their claim justified?
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Magazine Department ArticleIce Age FeedbackJan. 1, 2014 from Answers Magazine
Secular scientists are finally showing by their research that they recognize a problem creationists have been pointing out for decades.
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Does a Recycled Climate Model Explain Evolutionary Ice Ages?Aug. 22, 2013 from News to Know
The magical model that creates cyclic ice ages from practically nothing
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Magazine ArticleWhen Was the Ice Age in Biblical History?April 1, 2013 from Answers Magazine
The Bible doesn’t say, “And then there was an Ice Age.” Yet it does help us narrow down when the ice built up and then melted away.
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Magazine ArticleSpecial Feature—Mysteries of Our Frozen PastApril 1, 2013 from Answers Magazine
Few people dispute that an Ice Age once struck the planet, leaving telltale marks. But many mysteries remain.
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April 1, 2013 from Answers Magazine
Geophysicists have a love-hate relationship with “the Ice Age.”
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Magazine Department ArticleAfter the RainbowFeb. 26, 2013 from Answers Magazine
Have you ever wondered what it was like when Noah first stepped off the Ark? Imagine the changes!
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Who Killed the Iceman?Nov. 16, 2012
PBS recently aired an intriguing documentary covering an investigation into the death of earth’s oldest cold case. How and why was Ötzi killed?
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A Snail’s Tale of the PastAug. 13, 2011 from News to Know
Protein degradation purported to peer into the past.
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Book ChapterThe Ice AgeFeb. 17, 2011 from Evolution Exposed: Earth Science
When we start our reasoning from the truth of Scripture, we can develop a model to help us understand the one and only Ice Age.
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Frozen Mountains MeasuredFeb. 28, 2009 from News to Know
A mountain range the size of the European Alps—larger than anyone expected—has finally been measured.
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Oct. 14, 2008 from Answers Magazine
The Flood of Noah’s day was the greatest catastrophe in earth history, and it involved much more than rain.
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Migrant Native AmericansDec. 1, 2007
A new genetic study conducted at the University of Michigan “bolsters claims that Native Americans are descended from one migrant group that crossed a lost land link from modern Siberia to Alaska,” reports Agence France-Presse.
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Book ChapterWhere Does the Ice Age Fit?Nov. 22, 2007 from The New Answers Book 1
The ice age is a popular topic that is often discussed. Sadly, most people hear the secular/uniformitarian view and don’t look at this subject from a biblical perspective.
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Semi-TechnicalStill Trying to Make Ice Cores OldDec. 28, 2006
Dr. Hugh Ross’s Reasons to Believe website featured a new result from the Dome C ice core.
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Book ChapterWoolly Mammoths—Flood or Ice Age?Oct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
There is plenty of evidence that the woolly mammoths in Siberia, Alaska, and the Yukon and almost all other surficial sites in the Northern Hemisphere died after the Flood.
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Book ChapterPossible Explanations for Disharmonious AssociationsOct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
There are four possible explanations for the unique mix of cold- and heat-loving animals that were common during the Ice Age.
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Book ChapterThe Confusion of Elephant and Mammoth ClassificationOct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
It is likely that all mammoths should be classified as one species, or at least within one biblical kind.
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Book ChapterThe SnowblitzOct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
The Genesis flood provides the two ingredients necessary for an ice age. From this point on we can use basic meteorology to estimate the storm patterns and where ice sheets would develop.
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Book ChapterThe Peak of the Ice AgeOct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
After the Flood drained off the land, the world’s ocean and land temperatures were constantly changing as they strove toward the relative equilibrium we experience today.
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Book ChapterCatastrophic MeltingOct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
Accelerated melting would mark the end of the Ice Age.
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Book ChapterOnly One Ice AgeOct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
We often hear glacial geologists speak of numerous ice ages, as if it is certain. They hypothesize up to 30 different ones, each separated by interglacials, during the past 2.5 million years.
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Book ChapterThe Multiplication of Ice Age TheoriesOct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
Researchers have generated a lot of theories to explain the mysteries surrounding the mammoths, but questions about the cause of the Ice Age have also spawned a multitude of ideas.
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Book ChapterWere Siberian Mammoths Quick Frozen?Oct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
Despite its appeal, there is much evidence against the quick-freeze hypothesis.
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Book ChapterExtinction of the Woolly MammothOct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
Climate change at the end of the Ice Age was the main cause of late Ice Age extinctions.
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Book ChapterThe Mystery of the Ice AgeOct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
Although it is evident there was an Ice Age, scientists run into a blank wall when they try to provide the cause. They run into mystery after mystery.
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Book ChapterThe Genesis Flood Caused the Ice AgeOct. 1, 2004 from Frozen in Time
The two ingredients required for an Ice Age, cool temperatures and tons of snow, were dramatically fulfilled immediately after the Genesis flood.
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Technical Research PaperIce Cores vs the FloodAug. 1, 2004, pp. 58–61
Show that ice core dating methods are not independent and open to significant reinterpretation. The root of the problem is the uncritical acceptance of the uniformitarian paradigm.
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Semi-Technical Research Paper'Snowball Earth'—A Problem for the Supposed Origin of Multicellular AnimalsApril 1, 2002, pp. 6–9
For creationists, the rocks and their associated ‘glacial diagnostic features’ can be explained very easily. They are the result of gigantic submarine landslides in a warm ocean in the Genesis Flood.
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Technical Research PaperWild Ice-Core Interpretations by Uniformitarian ScientistsApril 1, 2002, pp. 45–47
Uniformitarian scientists derive many more ‘annual layers’ in the Greenland ice cores than creationists because of their assumed old age time scale.
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Lots of Ice, Too Much AgeMarch 19, 2002
Twentieth Century Fox has turned the period of Earth history known as the Ice Age into an animated movie for children called Ice Age.
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Technical Research PaperDo Greenland Ice Cores Show over One Hundred Thousand Years of Annual Layers?Dec. 1, 2001, pp. 39–42
It is the Greenland Ice Sheet that exhibits annual cycles of one or more of the variables down an ice core.
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Technical Research PaperThe Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth: Was It a Quick Freeze?Dec. 1, 2000, pp. 24–34
Mammoth remains have puzzled scientists and laymen for hundreds of years.
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More on the Ice AgeNov. 5, 1999
This article discusses the weather after the global flood and the conditions needed to create an ice age.
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Was There an Ice Age?Dec. 29, 1997
This article discusses the possiblity of there having been a global ice age following the global flood.
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Technical Research PaperRapid Changes in Oxygen Isotope Content of Ice CoresApril 1, 1997, pp. 52–60
Oxygen isotopes in ice cores extracted from polar regions exhibit a decreasing trend in the ratio of the heavy to light isotopes from the beginning of the Ice Age to its end.
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Magazine ArticleHotting Up For an Ice AgeJune 1, 1994, pp. 22–23
Ask just about anyone, ‘Was the Ice Age caused by things getting colder or warmer?’ They will almost certainly say, ‘That’s obvious. Colder, of course!’
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Magazine ArticleThe Ice AgeMarch 1, 1989, pp. 10–12
What do you know about the Ice Age? How does it fit into world history?
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