The post-flood ice age theory argues that a global ice age began on planet Earth after a global flood around 3,500 BCE. Climate change after the Genesis Flood is a possible cause of an ice age. The Flood was a tectonic and volcanic disaster. Many volcanic aerosols would persist in the atmosphere after the Flood, reflecting significant solar energy back to space. After the Flood, strong post-Flood volcanism presumably replenished volcanic aerosols in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, as revealed in Pleistocene sediments. Following the Flood, a much warmer ocean would supply the moisture. The heated ocean is a result of a warmer pre-Flood environment and the eruption of “all the vast fountains of the deep” (Genesis 7:11). The extra water must have been enough to cover the pre-Flood mountains, which were lower. Evaporation over the ocean is proportional to the air temperature, humidity, and wind speed. It is indirectly proportional to SST. A 10°C differential in air-sea temperature with 50 percent relative humidity evaporates seven times more water at 30°C than at 0°C. The highest evaporation occurs at higher latitudes and off the northern hemisphere’s coasts. The thermal wind theory predicts that high-level winds and a primary storm track will be parallel to the east coast in northeastern North America. Continent-wide storms would form around the eastern seashore, like modern-day Northeasters. Snow cover increases solar radiation reflection, strengthening cooling over land and correcting volcanic lulls (Oard, 1987).
The ice sheet will expand as long as there is adequate moisture, which is dependent on ocean warming. Thus, maximum ice volume duration depends on ocean cooling time. With plausible post-Flood climatology assumptions and starting and ultimate average ocean temperatures, this may be determined. However, the heat lost from the water would be transferred to the atmosphere, slowing the oceanic cooling. The period to attain maximum ice volume must also take into account the post-Flood thermal balance, which is highly dependent on volcanic activity. The time for glacial maximums varies from 250 to 1300 years depending on volcanism and balancing equations (Oard, 1987). In mid- and high-latitudes, total evaporation from warm oceans and moisture transfer from lower latitudes determine average glacial maximum ice depth. Because most snow falls during winter storms, it was supposed that twice as much precipitation fell over land as over water. Re-evaporated precipitation from non-glaciated land may wind up as snow on the ice sheet, although this should be somewhat offset by summer runoff. The average ice depth was about half uniformitarian projections (Oard, 1987).
There is evidence of just one ice age. As previously stated, an ice age requires certain conditions. Multiplication of the issue makes it impossible. Almost all ice-age sediments come from the latest, and they are thin in the centre and thick in the perimeter. Till may be placed quickly in terminal moraines. So the till’s principal features support one ice age. If there were several interglacials, why are Pleistocene fossils scarce in glaciated areas? A difficulty if there were many megafaunal extinctions. Large fluctuations and su
Primary Sources: Michael Oard, M.S; The Ice Age and the Genesis Flood; Institute for Creation Research (ICR). The Septuagint LXX