Cold Comfort for Long-Agers Hugh Ross ’ Superficial Interpretation of Ice Core Data

• Main Authors: Michael Oard, Larry Vardiman, Carl Wiel
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Antarctic; Greenland; The Antarctic; Antarc*; GRIP; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.577.9163; http://www.creationresearch.org/creation_matters/pdf/2005/Oard preprint.PDF

T he well-known proponent of “progressive creation ” and“millions of years, ” Hugh Ross, claims that the “old age”of the earth derived from ice cores is a scientific argument that “…may be simple enough for everyone to understand, regardless of science background — as simple as counting tree rings.”1 He goes on to state: The ice cores reveal hundreds of thousands of ice layers laid down on top of one another year by year, just as a tree adds one new growth ring per year.1 He lists the three new deep ice cores from on top of the Greenland Ice Sheet — the NorthGRIP, GISP2 and GRIP cores — and the three deep ice cores from the top of the Antarctic Ice