Sidelined says, "Time to bump this topic back into view and see if we can get more input into the issues raised by it."
D.T. Gish, in "Dinosaurs by Design" (1992) said that an armored dinosaur had been found in the ice of Antartica, proof of a Mesozoic age for the ice. But in reality, the fossil was found in the Mesozoic rocks of the Santa Marta formation (Weishampel, 1990).
In fact, summer and winter bands in Antartic ice can be counted back clearly, year by year, for at least 30,000 years (Anderson and Borns, 1994) with an overall core length indicating a time span of several hundred thousand years. Dates obtained from counting annual layers in ice cores can be correlated with Carbon 14 contained in air bubbles trapped in the ice and with C-14 dates from tree ring correlations as far back as 12,000 years.
The C-14 dating can be further correlated with annual sediment layers from glacial lakes and with pollen record dating of climatic changes in Europe and America, and with radiometric dates and sedimentation dates in deep sea cores. (Summaries by Anderson and Borns, 1994)
"For a creationist to argue a 2000 BCE Ice Age in the face of available interlocking scientifically sound evidence takes a great deal of faith and very little reason." (A very liberal paraphrasing of D.U. Wise, American Scientist, March/April, 1998, vol.86,n. 2, pg.160-173)
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