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The Biography of Benjamin Franklin doesn't mention the ice ages, does that mean that people who believe in Benjamin Franklin don't believe in the ice ages???
The Biography of Benjamin Franklin doesn't mention the ice ages, does that mean that people who believe in Benjamin Franklin don't believe in the ice ages???
The Bible talks about the creation of the heaven and earths, animals, humans and what happened after. I am pretty sure the Bio of Ben Franklin doesn't delve that deep.
Do you think all Christians believe the same things when it comes to science and knowledge, or are you just formulating the question that way to start an argument?
I am Christian. Of course I "believe" in the ice age. There are a hell of a lot of rocks in the backyard that were pushed forward by the edge of the two-mile-high glacier that once extended down into New Jersey.
I imagine that Christians that believe the bible is literal (The earth was created some 6,000 years ago) would not allow themselves to believe in an ice age since the Earth is in an ice age now. It started about 2 million years ago and is known as the Quaternary Period. Despite the many warm periods since then, we identify the entire time as one ice age because of the continuous existence of at least one large ice sheet—the one over Antarctica. (The glaciers and the Greenland ice sheet are also of long standing, but they are more recent). We are currently enjoying a warm interval: our climate represents an interglacial period that began about 10 000 years ago. The preceding glacial period lasted about 80 000 years.
Some years ago, I read the Earth's Children series, which takes place about 25,000 years ago and is centered on the idea that there was a period of time that modern humans and Neanderthals were both present in what is now Europe. The author based much of her story on archeological finds, and in the third book (The Mammoth Hunters), the main character lives in what is now the Ukraine with a group of people whose culture is based on archeological findings of people who created their homes, their tools, figurines, etc., out of the ivory of the woolly mammoths that they hunted for food. They adapted their lives to the conditions brought on by the huge wall of ice just to their north. The findings were displayed for a time at the Museum of Natural History in NYC and I went to see them. It was fascinating.
Some years ago, I read the Earth's Children series, which takes place about 25,000 years ago and is centered on the idea that there was a period of time that modern humans and Neanderthals were both present in what is now Europe. The author based much of her story on archeological finds, and in the third book (The Mammoth Hunters), the main character lives in what is now the Ukraine with a group of people whose culture is based on archeological findings of people who created their homes, their tools, figurines, etc., out of the ivory of the woolly mammoths that they hunted for food. They adapted their lives to the conditions brought on by the huge wall of ice just to their north. The findings were displayed for a time at the Museum of Natural History in NYC and I went to see them. It was fascinating.
I read those too and I loved them. She has a new one coming out soon I have heard!
I grew up in Southwest Virginia and those mountains were covered by the ice sheets as were the whole moutain chain all the way up to New England.
just curious because I don't recall reading about the ice ages in the bible. I could be wrong, if so please correct me.
Why do people ask questions like this? I'm a Christian and I believe in the ice age (or ages). Why wouldn't I? The Bible is not a science book. Why would it contain information on the ice age?
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