


The King of Burgundy swears fealty to the Holy Roman Emperor, but it causes an uprising in Provence. Europe The Holy Roman Empire makes peace with the Duchy of Poland. Milankovitch’s findings were corroborated when technological improvements in the 1960s allowed for the analyzation of deep sea ice cores and plankton shells, which helped pinpoint periods of glaciation. Many Christians, thinking that the Bible teaches that the earth and all life on it can be no more than 6,000 years old, answer this question in the affirmative. What happened on Earth 1000 years ago We’re in 1018 AD (Julian calendar, since the Gregorian calendar does not exist). Seeking to chart the Earth’s temperature from the past 600,000 years, Milankovitch carefully calculated how orbital variations such as eccentricity, precession and axial tilt affected solar radiation levels, publishing his work in the 1941 book Canon of Insolation and the Ice Age Problem. Geologists soon found evidence of plant life between glacial sediment, and by the close of the century the theory of multiple global winters had been established.Ī second important figure in the development of these studies was Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitch. Contradicting the belief that a wide-ranging flood killed off such megafauna as the wooly mammoth, Agassiz pointed to rock striations and sediment piles as evidence of glacier activity from a destructive global winter. We know from the Bible, however, that around 2500 BC (4,500 years ago) the worldwide. 2 This simple calculation shows that starting with Adam and Eve and assuming the conservative growth rate previously mentioned, the current population can be reached well within 6,000 years. In reality, even with disease, famines, and natural disasters, the world population currently doubles every 40 years or so.1. The origins of ice age theory began hundreds of years ago, when Europeans noted that glaciers in the Alps had shrunk, but its popularization is credited to 19th century Swiss geologist Louis Agassiz. It should be noted that this growth rate is actually very conservative. In North America, the region of the Gulf Coast states was dotted with the pine forests and prairie grasses that are today associated with the northern states and Canada. Corresponding sea levels plunged more than 400 feet, while global temperatures dipped around 10 degrees Fahrenheit on average and up to 40 degrees in some areas. At the height of the recent glaciation, the ice grew to more than 12,000 feet thick as sheets spread across Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and South America.
