Ice Age movie posterAfter just coming out of our seasonal ice age, we bring to you a critical-thinking analysis of the fun, animated movie, Ice Age. In this first part, we discuss ice ages, global flood, global warming, extinction, evolution, big brains, and fire. So listen now!

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“How do we know it’s an ice age?”

Because of all the ice!

If ice makes an ice age, why don’t we have ice ages every winter? Is this seasonal or an era? Evolutionists believe in multiple ice ages across millions of years of Earth history.

DISCLAIMER: if you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re both young-earth creationists.

Creationists do believe in a (single) ice age that would have happened quickly after the Flood. We don’t believe in a flash-freeze like in the The Day After Tomorrow, but we do believe in a rapid ice age.

Global warming proponents seem to believe in rapid climate change, but this is actually opposite of the usual evolutionary view of slow, gradual change.

The ice age allowed population expansion after the global flood because the ice created bridges between the continents.

Playing extinction

Ice Age is full of evolutionary ideas, but most of it seems tongue-in-cheek. The first time you see evolutionary ideas is in the hard-to-identify animals that they’ve put in the migration herd.

The young animals are playing extinction, and we talk about about what causes animals to go extinct—even large creatures like dinosaurs. Extinction doesn’t really have much to do with evolution.

Evolutionary breakthrough?

Ice Age cracks fun on the evolutionary breakthrough of flight. It doesn’t seem to be taking evolution seriously, even down to the stages of evolution all together in the ice.

An evolutionary museum encased in ice?

There’s an “exhibit” within the ice cave that looks similar to Darwin’s classic “ascent of man” illustration. The inclusion of this in Ice Age seems more tongue-in-cheek than agenda-pushing.

We discuss the arrangement of fossils and how the arrangement doesn’t show the order that evolutionists depend on for smaller/simple to large/complex organisms.

Brains and fire

Does brain-size have anything to do with intelligence?

There is a fascination with fire in Ice Age, and we briefly discuss how inaccurate Ice Age portrays the behavior of animals in relation to fire.

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5 comments on “Ice Age, Part 1 – AYJW014

  1. Winnie says:

    I haven&#039t listened to the whole episode yet, but had to make a quick comment about the whole slow ice age, rapid global warming thing.

    The difference between the old, slow ice ages and the rapid global warming we are experiencing now is the humans. Scientists believe that global warming is caused by us, and this is why it&#039s happening so fast. When the ice ages happened, we didn&#039t have industry, everything happened because of nature.

    I hope I&#039m getting my point across (that&#039s something I always find difficult).

    PS: yes, I believe in evolution and global warming caused by men.

  2. Regina says:

    Our current global warming crisis is certainly happening faster because of humans but it is hyped up so much it seems to be happening quite rapidly. Really it is still a slow process that may take hundreds of years to really get underway. Fluctuations in global climate are natural but humans are definitely adding to it. If the large scale effects don’t seem to be occurring to you yet, look at the small things that affect life on this earth! Our pollution and lack of empathy for other creatures we share this planet with is a huge problem!

    1. Eve says:

      The impact humans have on the environment is played up significantly by some scientists (not all, it’s not even a consensus) for political reasons. For the most part, nature is responsible for climate change, for example, the amount of carbon dioxide put into the air by human industry is quite small in comparison to that breathed out by a warming ocean, so claiming that the carbon dioxide levels are causing a warmer earth is an error in cause and effect, since a warming earth is actually increasing carbon dioxide levels. The temperature of the earth is affected much more by the position and activity of our sun, something outside our influence, than by anything else. Go look at the data for the increasing sunspot activity.

      God gave us a mandate to have dominion over the earth, and most Christians will agree that this does not mean exploiting natural resources or destroying our environment, however, putting environmental political agendas ahead of the lives and well-being of people should not be a cause we support.

      Politics aside, if the evolutionary timescales that so many are willing to believe are actually true, then any data we collect now for climate change could be pretty much ignored. We simply do not have enough time according to the evolutionary scale to really understand the data. And if our meager impact on the environment could affect that much change to the climate over such a relatively short period of time, then the evolutionary timescales have it all wrong: slow and gradual simply doesn’t work (something that we already know by watching the effects of catastrophes such as volcanic eruptions and tsunamis on our landmasses). “Nature” is demonstrably not a slow and gradual process. Our planet has always been volatile, and this is far more an established fact than any “evidence” supporting an evolutionary “slow and gradual” worldview.

      So, is the climate changing? Of course, I suspect if we had the kind of data we can collect now going back a couple thousand years, we’d see that it changes all the time. Is climate change a cause for concern? Possibly, but not to the extent that means that we should overturn entire economies attempting to fix what we’re not even completely sure is broken.

  3. Pachyrhinosaurus says:

    It doesn’t take long to see how ignorant the writers are. I’m just gonna comment on the fourth heading for now. Firstly, the frozen creatures are a reference to Rudolph Zallinger’s illustration titled “March of Progress” NOT drawn by Charles Darwin. (In fact, Zallinger was born about 40 years after Darwin had died.) Your “ascent of man” is probably an attempt to refer to Darwin’s 1871 book “The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex”. And yes, there is obvious succession in closely-related species, showing clear change from more ancient forms to more recent ones. Only a fool would reject this truth. It would be nice if you at least attempt to learn about the ideas you seem to so strongly oppose are before spouting out falsehoods about them.

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