Abstract
Long-ager Hugh Ross believes that ice cores demonstrate that the earth is old. However, the arguments he presents to support this belief are faulty. Dating by volcanic signatures becomes nearly impossible after 2,000 years and applying 'climate cycles' is an exercise in circular reasoning and assumes the astronomical theory of the ice age. The annual layer dating of the GISP2 Greenland core is good near the top but becomes more problematic at depth where old-age assumptions are used. The supposed annual layers in the bottom two-thirds of the core can be interpreted as subannual layers caused by storms and other variables. Antarctic cores are simply dated by curve matching to the assumed Milankovitch climate cycles. The criticisms that Ross presents against our previous work are easily refuted. It is unfortunate that Ross accepts, as fact, the speculations of fallen men about the prehistoric past over the clear historical record in the Bible. This is the foundational error of his work.