The Ice Age—Did It Happen?

12/05/22 • 0 min

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This is Ken Ham, producer of the chronological Bible curriculum for homeschoolers.

Mammoths, wooly rhinos, and giant glaciers all bring to mind an ice age. But did such an event really happen? Yes! The evidence is overwhelming.

Now, secular scientists will tell you there’ve been many ice ages over earth’s history. But they don’t have a mechanism to start or stop these events.

The Bible’s history explains why there was an ice age. During Noah’s flood there was intense volcanic activity, which warmed the waters and filled the atmosphere with ash—and it blocked the sun. The warm water quickly evaporated and fell as snow. This snow built up, forming glaciers. As the earth settled back down these glaciers retreated to the poles where they are now.

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This is Ken Ham, producer of the chronological Bible curriculum for homeschoolers.

Mammoths, wooly rhinos, and giant glaciers all bring to mind an ice age. But did such an event really happen? Yes! The evidence is overwhelming.

Now, secular scientists will tell you there’ve been many ice ages over earth’s history. But they don’t have a mechanism to start or stop these events.

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Only Two Options?

This is Ken Ham, author of the practical book on godly parenting, Will They Stand?

Today we’re wrapping up our series on logical fallacies with “the fallacy of bifurcation.” Now, this is when someone claims there are only two mutually exclusive options when there’s actually a third one.

An example: “Either you believe in science, or you have faith.” That’s bifurcation. You see, there’s a third option: we have faith in God and believe in the natural laws he’s set up to govern the universe. In fact, it’s only because God exists that we have a basis for natural laws in the first place!

Immaterial laws can’t exist in a material universe. Also, order doesn’t come from disorder.

So, if someone presents you with two options, stop and consider—is there a third?

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When Was the Ice Age?

This is Ken Ham, celebrating Christmas at the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum.

Yesterday we learned that, yes, there was an ice age but only one, not many, like secular scientists suggest. But when was this ice age?

Well, it was caused by the effects of the global flood of Noah’s day. This flood occurred around 4,350 years ago. So, the ice age began relatively soon after that and lasted a few hundred years.

Interestingly, Job, who lived around the time of Abraham, often mentions snow, ice, and hail throughout his book. But this isn’t weather he would normally see where he lived. Perhaps Job was describing the ice age!

When we start with the history recorded in God’s Word, we can explain what we see in the world.