The Ice Age (according to AiG)
We can see evidence of glaciation all over the world, so we can see with our own eyes that there was an ice age. Even some creationists have to admit that, and so Answers in Genesis have inventing an Ice Age (with capitals!). They offer this great timeline to help us understand what actually happened:
https://assets.answersingenesis.org/doc/articles/am/v8/n2/ice-age-map.pdf
So we have the Flood in 2350 BC, then three generations to the Tower of Babel, about 2250 BC, and the start of the Ice Age, which then lasts six generations, to about 2000 BC, when Abram was born. That is a very quick Ice Age. Back in reality, the last ice age started 2.5 million years ago, and is still going (we are in a warmer, interglacial period).
What is fascinating is how fast stuff happens in this time line.
Just think about the numbers involved here. Elephants are long-lived, so we can say a generation is about the same as it is for us (and that is being generous to the theory). There were two on the ark. How many kids did those two elephant-kind have? After two generations, when the mastodons have evolved, there will only be twenty to thirty elephant-kind altogether.
Just two generations later and woolly mammoths appear (by now there might be 600 or so elephant-kind all across the globe, now divided into numerous species), and one generation after that they have made it to North America.
Two to three generations after that, and the mammoths seem to have gone. They were around just four generations, and then extinct.
However, on this page AiG assure us:
So it is kind of odd that AiG also say:
As the Ice Age declines the first cities appear, around 2060 BC. This is Ashur (or Asshur in the chart; the son of one of the guys on the Ark) presumably founding the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah, and Resen. This is only eight generations after the flood, most of which was in an Ice Age. What do you think the world's population was at this time? A couple of hundred? So why did they need FOUR cities?
Which ultimately proves creationists do NOT think about it. They just swallow it whole.
https://assets.answersingenesis.org/doc/articles/am/v8/n2/ice-age-map.pdf
So we have the Flood in 2350 BC, then three generations to the Tower of Babel, about 2250 BC, and the start of the Ice Age, which then lasts six generations, to about 2000 BC, when Abram was born. That is a very quick Ice Age. Back in reality, the last ice age started 2.5 million years ago, and is still going (we are in a warmer, interglacial period).
What is fascinating is how fast stuff happens in this time line.
The Elephant-Kind
Mastodons first appear after two generations (around 2285 BC I guess), evolved from the elephant-kind on the ark, and woolly mammoths just two generations after that. That is some fast evolution!Just think about the numbers involved here. Elephants are long-lived, so we can say a generation is about the same as it is for us (and that is being generous to the theory). There were two on the ark. How many kids did those two elephant-kind have? After two generations, when the mastodons have evolved, there will only be twenty to thirty elephant-kind altogether.
Just two generations later and woolly mammoths appear (by now there might be 600 or so elephant-kind all across the globe, now divided into numerous species), and one generation after that they have made it to North America.
Two to three generations after that, and the mammoths seem to have gone. They were around just four generations, and then extinct.
However, on this page AiG assure us:
Millions of woolly mammoths roamed the grassy steppes of Siberia, Alaska, and the Yukon by the middle of the Ice Age.The middle of the Ice Age is just two generations after the woolly mammoth appeared, and yet already there were millions of them. These things must breed like flies!
Neanderthals
The mammoths were lucky they got as long as that. Neanderthals lasted just two generations. I wonder how many there were? Say two in the first generation, twelve in the next?So it is kind of odd that AiG also say:
Fossil remains of more than 490 Neanderthal individuals have now been recovered.How could they get to 490 in just two generations? And that was just the ones we have the remains for. They must have been at it like rabbits!
Spread of Mankind
At the height of the Ice Age, as the Neanderthals die out, mankind is entering Australia. Why? This is just six generations after the flood, it would be incredible if mankind had explored that far, let a lone ran out of living space.As the Ice Age declines the first cities appear, around 2060 BC. This is Ashur (or Asshur in the chart; the son of one of the guys on the Ark) presumably founding the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth, Calah, and Resen. This is only eight generations after the flood, most of which was in an Ice Age. What do you think the world's population was at this time? A couple of hundred? So why did they need FOUR cities?
Devil in the details
As they say, the devil is in the details. The flashy chart makes it look quite reasonable at first. It is only when you actually think about what they are claiming that you realise it is nonsense.Which ultimately proves creationists do NOT think about it. They just swallow it whole.
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