Ice Age Caused by Genesis Flood

1. How do we know there was an ice age?
   1. Ice age is defined by massive increase in ice and snow on the land
   2. Believed/discovered by geologists since 1840
   3. We can observe how melting glaciers produce moraines where rock/sediment debris is piled up
      1. Moraine: a mass of rocks and sediment carried down and deposited by a melted glacier, typically forms ridges at its edges or extremities
   4. We can observe debris scratching bed rocks indicating melted glaciers which can be seen all around the globe
   5. Huge erratic rocks are found 40+ miles away from melted glacier site due to glacial fluvial (large floods from large glaciers melting)
   6. Ice age assaults uniformitarianism theory since it requires a large catastrophic event
      1. Uniformitarianism: the theory that changes in the earth's crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes

2. What are the conditions necessary for an ice age?
   1. 3 requirements:
      1. Cooler summers (to not melt ice/snow)
      2. Increase in moisture (for greater precipitation to grow ice/snow levels)
      3. Persistence of condition 1 and 2
   2. Uniformitarian ideology has not found a way to provide for these conditions

3. How did the Genesis Flood meet the conditions of the ice age?
   1. Flood’s appearance satisfies all conditions
   2. Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
      1. Cooler summers: Flood would have come with much volcanic activity and plate tectonics causing heavy ash and aerosols that block the sunlight making cooler conditions
      2. Increase in moisture: volcanic activity from flood would cause a warm ocean which evaporates significantly faster causing tremendous clouds, storms, and precipitation
      3. Persistence of conditions 1 and 2: continued tectonics and volcanic activity replenishes ash and keeps ocean warm
   3. Following the flood, the ice age would have persisted for a number of centuries
      1. Oard estimates ocean was 86 degrees post flood, cooling of 36 degrees to current temps would take about 500 years and 700 years for ice to melt to meet current conditions

*Findings from Michael Oard's The Great Ice Age Documentary