Only one guess from last week was correct -- they were two pictures taken on Stuart Glacier. I had the privilege to fly in a helicopter to the top of it, and immediately beneath my feet under a thin "crust", the glacial ice is deep blue! I was fascinated!

The reason that the ice is so blue is that almost all of the air bubbles have been pressed out of the ice over time, so it's virtually like a crystal. It's much denser than the ice in your freezer. The reason it's blue is that the solid ice absorbs all of the other colors in the spectrum, but reflects the blue light.

The water melting at the top into beautiful little streams had a fantastic flavor, and you could drink it directly from the streams! On the ground, but especially in the air, you can see stripes on the glacier. This isn't only dirt, but mostly algae where we were walking around!

One of the things that everyone talks about is the melting glaciers. And, they continue to melt - but also grow from time to time! There is much hype about global warming, specifically, man-made global warming, and this is what is blamed for the melting. This is all hype. The truth is that there was one ice age the earth has experienced. It developed after the great flood, and because of it, roughly 5,000 years ago. The current glaciers are the tail end of that great event. They have been slowly melting back ever since then. It's very cold where they are now, so the melting is much slower than it was when ice began to recede off of the North American continent, Europe, and Asia.

Understanding the biblical framework for the physical history of the earth helps to keep your mind in the right place, and not always rely on man's ideas which prove to be wrong so much of the time.    

In Christ,