Was Antarctica Once Warm?

​Was Antarctica once a warm continent that became covered in ice after the Genesis Flood? Both evolutionists and creationists believe that Antarctica was warm but each disagrees on the time scale and the cause of the climate change. The evolutionists have trouble explaining how a warm continent could have become completely covered by a thick sheet of ice. However, creationists believe that the Genesis Flood completely changed atmospheric patterns on Earth and allowed for the continental glaciation seen in Antarctica and Greenland. Evidence has been found underneath the ice sheets for a warm Antarctica, including lakes, river systems, warm caves, and living organisms. Fossils found in Antarctica, including fossilized pollen found in drilled core samples reveal a much warmer history, including a lush, green environment with abundant forests. Coal deposits are found in the Transantarctic Mountains in Antarctica, which also indicates a past warmer environment. Evolutionists also believe that Antarctica was once warm, however evolutionists use their faulty time scales to propose a date 40 to 50 million years ago for a past warm Antarctica during the Eocene Epoch according to the standard geologic time scale. However, evolutionists do not have a good explanation of how a once warm continent could be eventually covered with ice. Creationists have the better explanations, as the dramatic effects of the Genesis Flood and the Springs of the Deep produced warmer ocean waters, which led to higher evaporation rates, higher precipitation in the form of rain and snow, and cooler summers to enable these ice sheets to grow to their current size. Evolutionists cannot explain how these thick ice sheets in Antarctica have been in existence for millions of years without melting and refuse to consider a shorter time scale. Only a dramatic and catastrophic event like the global flood described in the Book of Genesis (Chapter 7) could produce the climate conditions necessary to cause such dramatic drop in temperature and the accumulation of large ice sheets at the North and South Poles. Evolutionists fall in the trap of uniformitarian assumptions, where millions of years are assumed and expected before any research is conducted. Greenhouse gases are believed by evolutionists to be the cause of the warmer temperatures during the Eocene Epoch 40 million years ago, however creationists believe that global uniform warm temperatures at 60 to 70 degrees were in existence less than 5,000 years ago before the Genesis Flood. Creationists have also proposed some sort of protective canopy layer around the Earth, as described in Genesis 1:6 that kept global temperatures warm. This protective canopy layer is believed to be composed of some form of gases and liquid moisture. Some creationists believe that a canopy would "boil the earth" and have rejected the canopy theory, however, most creationists today believe there was some sort of atmospheric conditions in existence on Earth 5,000 years ago that kept temperatures universally warm. This warm climate was permanently disrupted by the events of the Genesis Flood and the protective canopy layer was broken. Creationists also believe that this protective canopy layer prevented harmful radiation from entering the Earth and its exposure to humans and animals, similar to the ozone layer. In addition, creationists have proposed that this radiation exposure has caused an increase in disease in living things and has reduced their lifespan since the Flood. This reduction in lifespan is also mentioned in the Book of Genesis (6:3). Oxygen levels are also believed by creationists to have been higher pre-Flood and lower today because of less green space on Earth after the Flood and this could also have affected the lifespan of living things.

​When Antarctica Was a Tropical Paradise. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/17/antarctica-tropical-climate-co2-research. 
Antarctica Was Once As Warm As Sunny California. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/antarctica-was-once-warm-sunny-california-180951195/#EJl9zpWqyTPrPyuA.99.
During last warming period, Antarctica heated up two to three times more than planet average. https://phys.org/news/2016-12-period-antarctica-planet-average.html.