Is the ice or frozen parts of the earth the same as it was 3,705 years ago, when God talked to Job about it?

Question

Bible. Job 38:30-32;

Answer 1

Hi. Googled "ice cores" and found lots of info. The brief answer is, "No, the Earth (and its frozen parts) has changed significantly, several times, in its history." The Bible is a wonderful book, but the science in it is a bit dated. For more info, read on and/or follow some of the links below.

"Ice cores contain an abundance of climate information. Inclusions in the snow of each year remain in the ice, such as wind-blown dust, ash, bubbles of atmospheric gas and radioactive substances. The variety of climatic proxies is greater than in any other natural recorder of climate, such as tree rings or sediment layers. These include (proxies for) temperature, ocean volume, precipitation, chemistry and gas composition of the lower atmosphere, volcanic eruptions, solar variability, sea-surface productivity, desert extent and forest fires.
An ice core from the right site can be used to reconstruct an uninterrupted and detailed climate record extending over hundreds of thousands of years, providing information on a wide variety of aspects of climate at each point in time. It is the simultaneity of these properties recorded in the ice that makes ice cores such a powerful tool in paleoclimate research."

"Locked within two cores of ancient ice is evidence of unprecedented swings in Earth's climate throughout the ages. These icy archives tell us that large, rapid, global change is more the norm for the Earth's climate than is stasis.
Two projects conducted from 1989 to 1993 collected parallel ice cores just 30 kilometers apart from the central part of the Greenland ice sheet. Each core is more than 3 kilometers deep and extends back 110,000 years. In short, the ice cores tell a clear story: humans came of age agriculturally and industrially during the most stable climatic regime recorded in the cores. They also indicate that today, Greenland is roughly 20°C warmer than it once was.
Scientists who have studied the cores agree that the Earth experienced large, rapid, regional-to-global climate oscillations through most of the last 110,000 years...The almost perfect match back to this date between records from the two cores should dispel any lingering doubt about the climatic origin of the events. These millennial-scale events represent large climate deviations that probably include change in temperature of many degrees Celsius, twofold changes in snow accumulation, large changes in how much wind-blown dust and sea salt were carried by the atmosphere, and large changes in methane concentration."

Answer 2

Was is 3,705 years ago? Ah, it seems like only yesterday, I'll never forget it because it was the day my wife and children were tragically taken from me (I found out later that it was the result of some silly wager, but no matter, I got a new and better family so alls well that ends well).

No my friend in fact the ice is quite different. Why only the other day God was mentioning how he missed all that ice on the polar caps and on mountain tops. Those were the good old days, oh well, nothing lasts forever.

On the bright side, God did happen to mention in passing that Hell was a little cooler than normal for this time of year so I guess it all evens out.

Answer 3

Under any circumstances, the "frozen parts of the earth" will be quite different 3,705 years ago than they are now due to both natural and human-accelerated climate change... so no, it would not be the same.