Did scientists lie about Mammoths and Ice Age Beasts?

Here's an excerpt from "Cloning the woolly mammoth: A worrying precedent?" published on January 20, 2011, at 7:30 AM in The Week.
( http://theweek.com/article/index/211207/cloning-the-woolly-mammoth-a-worrying-precedent )

The woolly mammoth, an 8-ton, 13-foot-tall behemoth that is an icon of the last ice age, has been extinct for about 10,000 years. But Akira Iritani, a professor at Japan's Kyoto University, is confident that he can re-create a fully functioning replica by 2016. Using an innovative frozen-cloning technique, Iritani's plan sounds straight out of the movies: implanting a mammoth's cells into an elephant, in the hopes that the elephant will give birth to a baby woolly mammoth in four to six years. Is this realistic or science fiction?

Some say, "How could one be a true scientist and believe in God?" I say, "How could one be a true scientist and NOT believe in God?"

Where do the Ice Ages fit into The Bible?

Here's a sample from Faith Science;

On Monday, July 20, 2009, Yahoo News published an article written by Jeanna Bryner entitled, “Comets Killed Ice Age Beasts.” According to the article, the discovery of lonsdaleite nanodiamonds just off the coast of southern California closed the deal. It provided the strongest evidence to date of the catastrophic event long suspected as the cause of extinction of large ice-age animals and the Stone Age group known as Clovis people. Until then, those hexagonal diamonds had only been found in meteorites and impact craters. This was due to the high temperatures and pressures necessary for their formation.

Evidence of arctic life discovered in temperate or tropical areas has caused scientists to point to Ice Ages. Large surfaces of the earth were covered with ice sheets (large continental glaciers) during those time periods. An exhibit on the Ice Ages from the Illinois State Museum shows some interesting facts. On their Web site is the quote, “If a type of animal lives in a certain type of climate now, we may infer that its ancestors lived in that type of climate, too.”

Ice Ages occurred due to changing continental positions, uplift of continental blocks, reduction of CO2 in the atmosphere, and changes in the earth’s orbit during four approximate time intervals:

• Late Proterozoic (800 to 600 million years ago),

• Ordovician and Silurian (460 to 430 million years ago)

• Pennsylvanian and Permian (350 to 250 million years

ago)

• Neogene to Quaternary (4 million years ago to present)

As evidenced by the Ice Ages, the general consensus in the international scientific community is that the earth is billions of years old. Theoretically, it makes sense due to the clearly defined strata of the earth and the presence of fossils at varying depths. Experimentally, it makes sense based on carbon dating methods. Fossils used to reconstruct prehistoric animals like mammoths and dinosaurs support this theory. The discovery of human-like bones in the earth’s strata is evidence of the existence of prehistoric man. In addition, the scientific evidence used to support the past occurrence of the Ice Ages is relatively strong.

• The earth was frozen solid because God stopped the sun.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:1–2 kjv

I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.

Jeremiah 4:23 niv

In keeping with the gap theory, the earth was flooded during the destruction between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. This explains why Genesis 1:2 says it was covered with water. The massive earthquakes could have resulted in tsunamis that submerged dry land. Like he did with the flood of Noah, God could have also caused the underwater springs to burst forth. In Job 9:1–7, God practically turned mountains upside down and shook the earth out of place. The heavens and earth as they now appear were restored in Genesis 1:2.

Place your focus on the way the Bible describes the beginning of creation. Did you notice the statement “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”? In other words, is it outrageous to think that the earth was covered in water? Isn’t it clear that the earth was flooded? Yet, this is nothing like the flood of Noah because the heavens were also destroyed and there was no light. There was no sun, and since the sun provides light and heat, the water covering the earth had to be frozen solid. So when the Holy Spirit moved upon the face of the waters, he moved over solid ice. Did you notice that?

Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

Job 38:29–30 kjv

The Ice Ages have been touted by scientists as historical facts but clearly have no place in the six thousand years that have passed since the process of creation was completed in Genesis 1. Maybe it’s just me, but as an intelligent Christian, I find no comfort in sticking my head in the sand like an ostrich, pretending not to notice scientific evidence. For that reason, if the entire earth was frozen at some point in history, shouldn’t there be some kind of biblical evidence?

According to Job 38:29–30, it’s quite likely that the waters of the earth were once frozen solid. The book of Job is by far the most scientific book in the Bible. As God declared his glory and authority in Job 38, he revealed some of the most intriguing mysteries of the universe. Could he have been speaking of the Ice Ages, or could he just have been speaking of the north and south poles? None of us were alive then, so we can only imagine.

Then Job answered and said, “I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.”

Job 9:1–7 kjv

God stopped the sun, ending the source of energy and light. So the Ice Ages could fit into biblical history right there.