Here is the first few paragrahs of Chapter Seven of "An Ice Age caused
by the Genesis Flood" by Michael Oard. Page 135-136.
One Ice Age, or Many?
Glacial geologists believe that ice ages occurred about once very
100,000 years. There is no agreement concerning the exact number of ice
ages, but the usual estimate is in the neighborhood of 20, with complete
deglaciations between them. Kennett (1982, p. 747) believes there may
have been as many as 30 glacial episodes during the late Cenezoic, which
includes the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene. In addition, several
large oscillations, called stadials and interstadials, are presumed
interspersed within each cycle. The Genesis Flood, on the other hand,
was a unique event, and consequently, the initial conditions for a
post-Flood ice age occurred only once. The concept of multiple ice ages
is directly contradictory to the model presented in this book. Is there
actual evidence for just one ice age, as opposed to many? The purpose
of this chapter is to investigate this question.
One could attempt to analyze all the detailed descriptions of glacial
deposits on earth, but instead, let us examine the general, large-scale
evidence that is more-or-less accepted by a majority of glacial
geologists. Because of their attachments to the multiple glaciation
hypothesis, they do not see the implication of this evidence. Glacial
sediments, laid down by the ice sheets, are complicated and confused, on
the local as well as the regional scale. Because of the many
difficulties involved, it is probably impossible to sort out some of
this data, in any model.
This chapter will focus only on the continental glacial deposits, which
are the direct physical evidence of glaciation. Multiple glaciation, in
relation to ocean sediments, was briefly discussed in Chapter 1, under
the topic of the astronomical theory of the ice age, and has been
treated elsewhere (Oard, Ice Ages: The Mystery Solved? Part 1, Part II
and Part III, Creation Research Society Quarterly, vol. 21, pp. 66-76,
125-137, and 170-181). The continental glacial debris shows much fewer
"glaciations" than the ocean sediments. Investigators are actively
engaged in an effort to reconcile the two records.
The continental deposits are difficult to interpret, and the data are
automatically fitted into the multiple glaciation model. In this
chapter, a brief history of the multiple glaciation concept, with
special focus on the alpine model, which held sway over the
interpretation of gelolgical data for over half a centry will be
presented. A discussion of the large-scale evidence for one ice age, as
contrasted with multiple glaciations and their intervening interglacials
follows. We will examine the basis for postulating interglaical
periods, with special emphasis on soil stratigraphy. The chapter will
end with an alternate explanation for the data used to support
interglaical periods.
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