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 complexity—certain 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