The Flood caused an ice age

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 Related claims 6 Acknowledgments

Claim

The great release of energy during the Flood caused much water from the new oceans to enter the atmosphere. This moisture fell at the poles as snow and caused the Ice Age.

Source

• Morris, Henry M., 1974. Scientific Creationism, Master Books, Arkansas, pp. 126-127.

Responses

1. The only way you can get enough water to flood the entire planet would be to melt all of the polar caps and pray for enough rain to leave the atmosphere relatively devoid of any appreciable moisture, a difficult thing to do since the moisture referenced in this article is apparently falling from the sky while it is being returned to the sky. Typical rainfall originates above the immediate ground layer, where moisture from a rainfall can be trapped. The upper atmosphere, where the moisture needs to be in order to circulate on a scale sufficient to bring it back to the poles, is typically left in a much more arid state than before the rainfall. Even the notion that a planet entirely covered with water would result in much more evaporation (and thus the formation of more clouds and rain) cannot explain the fact that the polar regions would need to be relatively warm for the basic premise to be true, meaning that rainfall would be exactly that, and not snowfall.
2. The Bible nowhere refers to an ice age after the Flood.
3. All scientific evidence points to an ice age much longer ago than the Flood.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

1. Just So Story (made up to fit a myth)
2. Suppressed Evidence (The physical implausibility of an ice age being caused by moisture from the melting Ice Caps is conviently ignored)
3. Golden Hammer Fallacy (if all you have is the Flood, you have to use that as an explanation)
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Related claims

• Aquatic organisms could have survived the Flood
• Plants could have survived the Flood
• Geologic column was deposited by the Flood
• Fossils were deposited by the Flood
• High mountains were raised during the Flood
• The Flood shaped the earth's surface in other ways
• Grand Canyon was carved by retreating Flood waters

Acknowledgments