In the 19th C. there was no shortage of Roman Catholics who were Young Earth Creationist.
One of them was Alois Trissl, probably identic to the one who was chaplain in Ruhmannsfelden in Lower Bavaria, 1880 - 1881. He wrote a book on the subject, and had no shortage of readers.
Die Cooperatoren von Ruhmannsfelden
https://pfarreiengemeinschaft-teisnachtal.de/Archiv_HP-Pfarrer-Meier/cooperat.htm
Now, same or different, his book is anyway: A. Trissl Sündfluth oder Gletscher ; Das Biblische Sechstagewerk, 2e édit. Munich, Ratisbonne, 1894.
The subtitle of the work is "the Biblical Six-Day Work" ... but the main title refers to certain geological features, posing the question: "Flood or Glaciers?"
So, after hearing that CMI actually does believe in the Glaciation as one post-Flood event (I'd agree, but disagree on how long, it ended by Noah's death), I concluded, Chaplain Trissl was probably wrong in attributing to the Flood things that came from a post-Flood Ice Age.
Today, CMI kind of revindicates him at least partially:
As for the supposed ‘earlier ice ages’, examination of the evidence indicates that their features are different from those of the Pleistocene one. They are better interpreted as huge underwater landslides caused by massive sediment movement during the Flood.
Footnotes 2 and 15 are relevant:
Old-earth scientists typically argue for a total of five major glaciation events: the Huronian, the Cryogenian, the Andean-Saharan, the Karoo, and the Quaternary (or Pleistocene); see Marshall, M., The history of ice on Earth; newscientist.com, 24 May 2010.
Oard, M.J., Ancient Ice Ages or Gigantic Submarine Landslides? Creation Research Society Books, Chino Valley, AZ, 1997; Molén, M., Diamictites: ice-ages or gravity flows? in Walsh, R. E. and Brooks, C. L. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Creationism, Creation Science Fellowship, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 177–190, 1990.
So, if this is correct, the Huronian Ice age are not just temporally misplaced features of the post-Flood Ice Age, but actually different features from the Flood, Trissl is, as said, at least partially, vindicated.
Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Moses, Lawgiver and Prophet
4.IX.2025
In monte Nebo, terrae Moab, sancti Moysis, legislatoris et Prophetae.
PS, here is today's article from CMI, the one that I quoted:
Will there be another Ice Age?
by Cody Guitard | This article is from
Creation 39(1):50–52, January 2017
https://creation.com/will-there-be-another-ice-age
