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Frozen in Time: The Woolly Mammoth, the Ice Age, and the Bible

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Every once in a long while a book comes along which clearly and concisely explains scientific mysteries which have been swept under the proverbial rug because of the current definition of science (only naturalistic causes for the existence of everthing are allowed to be considered). Frozen in Time is such a book.

Far from ignoring the scientific data, this author uses current weather models and superb logic to show exactly how an ice age would have formed as a direct result of a worldwide flood. This solves the major long standing mystery surrounding the demise of the Woolly Mammoths. An extremely thought provoking book which should be a standard text in any college classroom on earth history - but sadly won't because it destroys the assumptions of, and evidence for, a hugely old earth.

Get this book if you'd like a glimpse at the truth.

I found this book to be a breath of fresh air. Dr. Oard's background in meteorology has uniquely prepared him to give a rational explanation of atmospheric conditions that could have existed after the world catastrophe described by Creationists. This book gives scientific answers to many questions that cannot be clearly explained by uniformitarianism. For example, what caused the Ice Age, why do we find disharmonious fossils together (eg. wooly mammoths and hippos), what stopped the Ice Age, why did the mammoths and other Ice Age animals die off if the weather was getting warmer? Yes, undoubtedly there are some areas where more research is needed. But the explanations given are logical and harmonious with the evidence found in nature. One's world view does affect how things in nature are understood. In this case, the short earth history worldview best explains the Ice Age & associated events.

Frozen in Time by Michael Oard

Like many children, my fascination with mammoths began long before I could understand the science. Maybe I caught the tone of mystery when anyone wrote or talked about these huge wooly beasts of the past. As I have grown up, I have gradually gained more knowledge of the mysteries surrounding mammoths and their ice age. Like the dinosaur question, how did they all die? Why were they living in Siberia and Alaska in the first place? These ivory-tusked creatures of legend have on occasion been found mummified, almost whole, standing upright in the permafrost. How did that happen, and what does it tell us about the climate of the past?

For a creationist, curiosities related to extinction and weather always bring to mind the Flood. How much did the world change when God judged mankind by sending a global catastrophe? Are we still affected today by the aftershocks of the Flood? So for a person like me, a book giving a scientific creationist perspective on the Ice Age and the Mammoth mystery is gold. Michael Oard, a meteorologist, has written such a book.

Frozen in Time is well-constituted, moving through a thorough introduction of the subject and mysteries to a presentation of the Creationist Flood model and its Ice Age mechanism followed by a summary of secular theories and their difficulties, finishing with an exploration of the evidence for and against the proposed explanations for the Ice Age and the demise of the seemingly out of place mammoths. Michael Oard is willing to criticize both secular and creationist scientist for jumping to conclusions about the extinction of mammoths, pointing out that a deep snap freeze is not necessary to preserve a few mammoths in standing position with relatively unspoiled food in their stomachs. His book provides an alternative and points out that most mammoths appear to have died and been buried in more normal ways.

Aside from including very interesting tidbits about mammoth finds, other large mammals associated with the Ice Age, elephant taxonomy, and weather patterns, Frozen in Time is an important book because it is yet another evidence that the sciences built on uniformitarianism (demanding an old earth and repeating processes in nature) cut the floor from under themselves. By excluding short timelines and catastrophic possibilities because of their bias, secular scientists have no chance of following the evidence where it leads. Like trying to figure out which paints to mix to create green when the existence of blue is denied, the scientists are figuratively mixing any color except for blue, and are frustrated that they have not been able to explain green. This is bad science.

Creation science, on the other hand, not only solves puzzling natural phenomenon (and no, we do not solve everything by saying "God did it."), but provides us with useful sciences and models. In this book are included speculations about cavemen, about classification, the adaptability of animals to different climates, geology, geography, global warming or cooling, and migration of man and beasts.

To God be all glory,
Lisa of Longbourn

This book had some very interesting and plausible theories regarding the Ice Age and the biblical flood. By explaining the necessary components for beginning an Ice Age, and how the Genesis flood was capable of fulfilling these components, Mr. Oard makes a compelling case for how the Ice Age may have been initiated and sustained. I also enjoyed the discussions on the Woolly Mammoth. And, by discussing many opposing theories in great detail, Mr. Oard enables the reader to draw their own conclusions. But what makes this book most appealing is its ability to take complex scientific information and present it in a way that is comprehensible to the layman.

In this book, young earth creationist Michael Oard (known as Mr. Ice Age) presents his one Ice Age theory (caused by the Flood). He fails to take all the effects of his theory into account, making it unworkable. He feeds his Ice Age with massive amounts of volcanics, but he does not consider that a byproduct of volcanic activity is carbon dioxide. In reality, instead of causing an Ice Age, Noah and his family would have been roasted alive.
This is just one problem of many. As is usual in young earth books, the young earth reader is supposed to accept the words of this "expert" without question. If one is willing to look beneath the surface, insurmountable problems arise.