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Tweedy, Eric J. (2024) Oard's Ice Age and Settlement of Northern Europe on Masoretic and Septuagint Timelines. Answers Research Journal, 17: 41. pp. 763-783. ISSN 1937-9056
Oard (1979, 1984a, 1984b, 1985, 1990, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2016, 2017, 2024) has written extensively about past glaciation of the earth. He rejects the Astronomical Hypothesis that implies 20 to 30 ice ages have covered the earth over the past 2.6 million years, the so-called Quaternary Period. His model posits a single 700-year period of glaciation that was caused by the Genesis Flood. Oard's model is stood alongside the Flood, the Dispersion, and traditional settlement dates of northern Europe to see if all data are compatible within those events and a biblical timeline based on either the Masoretic Text or the old Greek translation (called the Septuagint), which respectively delineate the youngest and oldest earth possible under biblical timelines. The implications of the Oard Ice Age model regarding the founding of Trier, Germany, and the colonization of Ireland as proposed by Griffith and White (2022b) are examined. The conclusion is that accepted historical glaciation extents, Oard's Ice Age model as he parameterized it, northern Europe settlement traditions, and the Masoretic biblical timeline are not consistent. Putting the Ice Age on the Septuagint timeline removes some of the conflicts but also raises other questions regarding the timing of settlement for both the Americas and northern Europe and requires an alternative explanation of flooding c. 2350 BC.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science (General) > QE Geology > QE102 Ice Age B Philosophy (General) > BB The Bible > BB4 Biblical Chronology C Sciences of History (General) > CB History of civilization |
| Depositing User: | Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2026 23:42 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2026 23:42 |
| URI: | https://crsq.creationresearch.org/id/eprint/1589 |