The secular view has no good mechanism to cause a single ice age, let alone the many they propose. But the Bible does have a mechanism.During the Ice Age 30 percent of the land surface of the earth was covered by ice. In North America an ice sheet covered almost all of Eurasia, Canada and the northern United States.

In view of the massive tectonic activity caused by God at the time of the flood we would have to conclude that the flood and its aftermath triggered the ice age. The flood would have caused major changes to the earth’s crust and climate. The increased volcanism would have disturbed the atmosphere causing a shroud of volcanic dust which would have been trapped in the stratosphere for years. This volcanic effluent would have caused sunlight reflection and cooler summers. The evidence shows substantial volcanic ice age activity, which would have replenished the dust in the stratosphere.

Ice ages require large amounts of precipitation, falling as snow over cooler areas. Cooler land areas would mean the snow would not melt and therefore form ice sheets. The crustal movements, volcanism and larva flows during the flood would have released huge amounts of hot water, warming the oceans, causing huge amounts of evaporation which would have been dropped on the cool land areas. This is a recipe for powerful and continuous snowstorms.

This model suggests an Ice age reaching its peak 500years after the flood and taking another 200 years to abate. The Ice age would have also created land bridges for the migration of animals. The flood is the best explainable model for the formation of the Ice age. The book of Job, the Bible’s oldest book, appears to mention an ice age. Out of the Bible’s sixty-six books, Job has some particularly unique features. It “contains more references to creation, the flood, and other primeval events than any other book of the Bible except Genesis, and also seems to contain more modern scientific insights than any other book of the Bible.”[Dr Henry Morris] Some scholars and scientists even think it may contain a reference to the Ice Age. It is true that Job has more mentions of snow, ice, and cold than any of the other Biblical books.

For instance, in what could be an allusion to the Ice Age, Job 38:29-30 says, “From whose womb comes the ice? And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth? The waters harden like stone, And the surface of the deep is frozen.” As Dr. Henry Morris commented, “This unusual picture of a sheet of ice slowly coming forward as if emerging from a womb may well refer to the ice sheet of the great Ice Age that covered the northern latitudes for many centuries following the flood.” Whether this be a reference to the Ice Age or not, the events recorded in this book would have been almost certainly contemporaneous with this great freeze.