Polar Ice Layers: A Lost Aircraft and Creation
Evolutionists believe that the polar ice caps, located at the North and South Pole, formed over millions of years ago. The Arctic region is believed by mainstream scientists to have been covered by ice for at least 5 million years and up to 15 million years, based on measurements of ice core samples. These polar ice caps have expanded and contracted over time based on climate conditions and temperature variations causing the accumulation of snowfall. Evolutionists believe that there were at least five major "ice ages" where the polar ice caps expanded toward the equator and later contracted. However, evolutionists do not have a good explanation of how an ice age was initiated. Creationists, however, believe that there was one ice age shortly after the global Flood of the Book of Genesis, which created the right conditions for an ice age: warm ocean waters caused by the "springs of the deep" and excessive volcanic activity around the earth, large amounts of evaporation of ocean water and precipitation in the form of snowfall over the North and South Pole, in addition to cooler summers. As snowfall accumulates and compacts, layers of ice are formed.
During a blizzard in 1942, eight traveling World War II planes landed on a Greenland glacier and the pilots were later rescued but the planes were left abandoned. (1) More recently, a search began to find the lost planes by using radar and drilling through the ice. In 1988, one of the planes was recovered from the Greenland glacier that had been left there almost half a century. After almost 50 years, this plane was recovered under more than 250 feet of ice and hundreds of layers of ice had formed during this time period. Creationists have used this story to explain that large snowfall and ice accumulation at the North and South Poles can occur quickly, in the range of dozens of years and not millions of years.
At this rate of accumulation, the polar ice caps would be much thicker than they currently are if there was millions of years of time passed. In addition, creationists believe that large accumulations of ice can occur in one year, such as during the ice age and that one ice layer does not always represent one calendar year. Some years can have more snowfall and therefore more ice accumulation with in one calendar year and other years can have less accumulation. Creationists have even explained that dust and volcanic material found in the drilled cylindrical ice core samples can produce layers that are perceived by evolutionists to be annual layers. (4)
Volcanic activity is known to lower global temperatures and therefore the proximity of Greenland to Iceland, which is known to be a major hot spot volcanic site, and can explain why the Greenland ice sheet has accumulated large amounts of ice in a short period of time. Therefore, evolutionists have grossly overestimated the age of the ice layers by assuming all layers represent yearly or annual layers of ice. Evolutionists have miscalculated the age of the polar ice caps based on their biased time frame and uniformitarian assumptions which begin with millions of years before any other research is conducted. The age of the polar ice caps fits perfectly with the creationist model of 4,500 years of ice accumulation since the Flood and Ice Age.
(1) Pilots Tell Tale Of Arctic Adventure. Chicago Tribune.com, December 7, 1998.
(2) <a href="http://science.jrank.org/pages/5371/Polar-Ice-Caps-Polar-ice-caps-geologic-history.html">Polar Ice Caps - Polar Ice Caps And Geologic History</a>
(3) Do Greenland ice cores show over one hundred thousand years of annual layers? Journal of Creation 15(3):39–42—December 2001.
(4) Do Ice Cores Disprove Recent Creation? Acts & Facts. 43 (4). Institute for Creation Research. 2014.
During a blizzard in 1942, eight traveling World War II planes landed on a Greenland glacier and the pilots were later rescued but the planes were left abandoned. (1) More recently, a search began to find the lost planes by using radar and drilling through the ice. In 1988, one of the planes was recovered from the Greenland glacier that had been left there almost half a century. After almost 50 years, this plane was recovered under more than 250 feet of ice and hundreds of layers of ice had formed during this time period. Creationists have used this story to explain that large snowfall and ice accumulation at the North and South Poles can occur quickly, in the range of dozens of years and not millions of years.
At this rate of accumulation, the polar ice caps would be much thicker than they currently are if there was millions of years of time passed. In addition, creationists believe that large accumulations of ice can occur in one year, such as during the ice age and that one ice layer does not always represent one calendar year. Some years can have more snowfall and therefore more ice accumulation with in one calendar year and other years can have less accumulation. Creationists have even explained that dust and volcanic material found in the drilled cylindrical ice core samples can produce layers that are perceived by evolutionists to be annual layers. (4)
Volcanic activity is known to lower global temperatures and therefore the proximity of Greenland to Iceland, which is known to be a major hot spot volcanic site, and can explain why the Greenland ice sheet has accumulated large amounts of ice in a short period of time. Therefore, evolutionists have grossly overestimated the age of the ice layers by assuming all layers represent yearly or annual layers of ice. Evolutionists have miscalculated the age of the polar ice caps based on their biased time frame and uniformitarian assumptions which begin with millions of years before any other research is conducted. The age of the polar ice caps fits perfectly with the creationist model of 4,500 years of ice accumulation since the Flood and Ice Age.
(1) Pilots Tell Tale Of Arctic Adventure. Chicago Tribune.com, December 7, 1998.
(2) <a href="http://science.jrank.org/pages/5371/Polar-Ice-Caps-Polar-ice-caps-geologic-history.html">Polar Ice Caps - Polar Ice Caps And Geologic History</a>
(3) Do Greenland ice cores show over one hundred thousand years of annual layers? Journal of Creation 15(3):39–42—December 2001.
(4) Do Ice Cores Disprove Recent Creation? Acts & Facts. 43 (4). Institute for Creation Research. 2014.
