The Bible Timeline

14 Billion years ago* = Big Bang = Genesis 1:3

4.5 Billion years = Earth created = New Earth Creation claim 7000 yrs ago

3.7 Billion years ago*= Photosynthesis = Paleozoic-Silurian

65 Million years ago = Dinosaurs = Job 40:15 = Mesozoic-Triassic

2 Million years ago = Homo Erectus = Pleistocene

350,000 years ago = Homo sapiens = Genesis 1:26 = Pleistocene

270,000 years ago =    Y-DNA haplogroup = Chromosomal Adam

100,000 years ago =  Verbal language develops =  Genesis 11:1

50,000 years ago = Behavior modernity = Upper Paleolithic

10,000 BC = Jericho appears as a city-state = Cultivation of wheat

9600 BC =  Abrupt period of global warming = Glacial retreat

3,200 BC = Written language = Sumerians of Mesopotamia (Iraq)

2,000 BC = Abraham enters Canaan = Minoan civilization in Crete

1200-1400 BC = Moses = Knossos Palace in Crete abandoned

1162 BC = Gideon = Destruction of Troy

1000 BC =  David = Iron age

959 BC =  Solomon temple = Gold vessels

930 BC = Kingdom divides = Celts invade Britain

722 BC =  Israel Falls to Assyria = Rome founded 753 BC

605 BC = Daniel in Nebuchadnezzar court = Buddha born 563 BC

586 BC = Judah Falls to Babylon = Confucius born 551 BC

538 BC = Cyrus of Persia allows Jews return = Aesop/Greek tragedy

479 BC =  Ester Queen of Persia = Socrates born 469

516 BC = Temple restored (Ezra)  =  Roman Republic founded 509 BC

330 BC =  Aramaic replaces Hebrew = Alexander the Great

165 BC =  Maccabean revolt = Hanukah        

37 BC = Herod begins to rebuild Temple = Anthony & Cleopatra

5 BC = Jesus and Paul born = London founded 43 AD

67 AD = Paul martyred = Roman General Titus destroys Jerusalem 70

73 AD =  Jewish suicide at Masada =  Mt. Vesuvius erupts 79

95 AD = John writes Revelation   =  Pope Clement 88-99 AD

*A billion years could be a nanosecond to God; no human will ever know the mind of God or how science and God act together.

* Intelligent design proposes that certain features of living things can best be explained by an intelligent cause, not as an undirected process such as natural selection. This claim is based on irreducible complexitycertain features of the universe are too complex to be the result of natural processes. (The clock analogy says if you were an early age man and found a clock you would say someone must have made the clock; it couldn’t have evolved from nothing.)

This memory aid helps estimate the Bible Timeline:

  • 2000 BC Abraham
  • 1500 BC Moses
  • 1000 BC David
  • 500 BC fall of Judah
  • 0 Herod builds temple, Jesus and Paul born
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