![]() As a massive ice sheet expanded over Canada, it drove out most living things, and then it continued to push south into the Ohio valley. Among the treasures Clark found were spear points.Īfter two centuries of research, we now have enough information to begin recreating scenes from the rise and fall of the Ice Age. In 1807 President Thomas Jefferson sent General William Clark (of “Lewis and Clark” fame) to gather bones and ship them to the White House. Just down the road from Cincinnati in the north central USA is Big Bone Lick, “the cradle of American paleontology.” The discovery of huge bones from mastodons, giant sloths, and other Ice Age creatures sparked the first scientific expedition to collect vertebrate fossils in North America. ![]() Differences between the models have no major bearing on the overall timescale of a straightforward reading of Scriptures, i.e., the Flood of Genesis 6, which occurred roughly 4300 years ago, brought on one major Ice Age that lasted a few hundred years. ![]() Editor’s note: Biblical creationists have not reached a consensus on one Ice Age model.
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