In the past I have had the opportunity to visit Glacier National Park in northern Montana. While there I visited a visitors center that had a sculpture that was a small scale of the surrounding mountains. Off to the side of this sculpture were facts of how the glaciers sculpted the valleys and mountains in the park. Glaciers are moving sheets of ice, as glaciers moved they carved the lowlands and scratched away the sides of the mountains. I asked a geologist where the ice actually came from and he told me it was from the Ice Age. I then asked,”Where did the water come from?” Scientists are still unsure.
There are two main ingredients for an ice age, cool summers and lots of snow. So how do we get cool summers? Well the sun’s radiation needs to be reduced drastically. Scripture indicates that majority of the water for the flood came from within the earth, “all the fountains of the deep burst forth.” If we assume that the fountains of the deep are pockets of lava heated from the earth’s core, and once erupted there will be a significant amount of volcanic ash in the atmosphere, thus blocking a portion of the sun’s heat for up to three years. with this amount of blockage the earth will the become much cooler.
Where does the abundance of snow come from? Well, if all the magma is deposited into the water on the surface of the earth, the oceans will become warm. With this warm water and cool air for a substantial amount of time there would be enormous amount evaporation which produces massive amounts of snow in the higher latitudes. After substantial amounts of snow and freezing temperature the snow then becomes massive blocks of ice. This also didn’t happen progressively, this all happened in almost an instant compared to the amount of time scientist believe it took. So fast in fact, the animals among the land didn’t have time to escape, therefore mammoths and other creatures were instantly preserved.
So did the Flood of Genesis cause the Ice Age?
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