The Christian Bible Timeline and other Timeline alternatives.

Do science and religion agree on the timeline of Earth's creation?

There is a mystery of Earth's creation.

The Bible and other sources suggest the timeline of Earth's creation.

The Protestant Bible tells that Earth has existed for 6,000 to 10,000 years.
Many scientists, including zoologists and archaeologists, as well as followers of other religions, believe Earth is much older.

Consider the following information gathered from the internet and the wisdom of this site's author:
There are several ways to interpret the length of "time" in biblical time, which can be confusing.
Time is variable and changes depending on many factors.

There are references in the Bible where many interpret a day as a thousand years.
Occasionally a day could mean a hundred years.
Educated biblical scholars sometimes disagree about biblical time.

In the past, a day in the Bible was of variable length.

In some cases in the Bible, a day means a year.
Occasionally a day can be a thousand years or a hundred years long.
This could be why it's complicated to calculate when the Earth was created.
Some believe the Earth's creation was 6,000 years ago based on the interpretation that a day is a true 24-hour day.
However, if a day is a year or a thousand years, then the Bible could be in sync with the scientific view.
The scientific community is difficult to discredit, even though we know that many times they are in error.

A physical day in the Bible starts at sunset on the first day and ends at sunset on the second day.

The third hour is not three hours after sunset.
It is not three hours after midnight.
The third hour is three hours after sunrise.
Over the period of a year, the sun rises earlier or later depending on the season.

Just like today, ancient people divided their days into two 12-hour periods.

However, the 12 hours were flexible and varied.
The first period was 12 hours from sunset to sunup, no matter how many minutes or hours that took.
During the second period, the 12 hours start at dawn and finish at dusk, regardless of the minutes or hours it takes.
The Biblical hour was not exactly 60 minutes; the modern-day hour is exactly 60 minutes.
The hours' length was variable due to the year's seasons, when nights were shorter and days were longer.
Summer daytime hours were longer in minutes than the nighttime hours.
The winter daytime hours were shorter in minutes than the nighttime hours.

The Roman day (the one we use) starts at midnight and ends the following midnight.

During ancient Rome, they had variable hour lengths.
There are several intriguing things about the calendar and days of the week.
Parts of the world, present and past, use the moon to record time.
Some use the sun as we do in North America.
There are many calendars, including the Julian, Gregorian, Roman-Byzantine, Egyptian, Iranian, Islamic, Jewish, Turko-Mongol, and Western calendars.
The Pope's decree in October 1582 removed ten days from the calendar by switching from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
Removing the ten days allowed the calendar to keep the vernal equinox from March 11 to March 21.
This was important for the farmers to keep all celebrations consistent with the seasons.
Most countries in the modern world use the Gregorian solar calendar, which has 12 months.
The time it takes for Earth to orbit the sun (solar year) is approximately 365.25 days.
Every four years, we change the calendar by one day to align the four seasons with the sun's orbit.
Most of the Islamic world uses the lunar calendar, which also has 12 months.
The time it takes the moon to orbit the Earth (lunar month) is approximately 29.53 days, totaling approximately 354 days a year.
A lunar month goes from new moon to new moon.
Every few years, a leap month is added to align the seasons with the moon's orbit and keep it in sync with the solar calendar.

"Seeing is believing." "Reading is faith."

Reading someone's rendition of an event that happened a thousand years ago is difficult to believe if scientific evidence does not support it.

Which is correct, someone's recollection or the scientific evidence?
In certain instances, neither interpretation might be accurate.
So there we have it.
There are two ways of looking at the past.
Biblical faith refers to believing someone's recollection and interpretation of biblical stories or their scientific approach to discovered facts.
Which is correct: faith or science?
What is the true interpretation of the past?
It's either one or the other, perhaps both, or neither.
Everyone knows that eyewitnesses are not 100% dependable.
Personal accounts of an event, like faith, sometimes lack proof and can be unreliable.
We are all aware that science has occasionally proven to be incorrect.
Once upon a time, scientists believed the Earth was the center of the galaxy, and some considered it flat.
In fact, there are still some idiots who believe the Earth is flat.
Therefore, I have to ask, "How reliable were these people?"
Perhaps both scientists and eyewitnesses are reliable to some degree.
The reality is that we don't understand or properly interpret either method.

The Bible was written over the course of 1500 years.

Experts have never decided on the exact years when the ancient manuscripts and biblical scriptures were written.
Furthermore, it is not known who the specific authors are for many of the books.
The early biblical scriptures and Old Testament writings date from around 1650 BC to 1000 BC.
Moses lived between 1500 and 1300 BC.
It is true that Moses or his aides wrote the Pentateuch (the first five Bible books).
Somehow, Moses was aware of all the events that took place before his time.
He most likely learned through traditional oral stories passed down through the generations.
Alternatively, it may have been revealed to him by God and the angels on Mount Sinai during the Exodus.
Then again, there is evidence that Abraham may have used a written language.

It is not known for sure how the Bible stories got to Moses.
It could have been generations of storytelling, written media that have long disintegrated, or divine sources.

If we believe the story of Noah and the Flood wiping out the planet, everything flows from Noah.

The entire mammal world, humans and animals, drowned except the eight in Noah's family and the mammals that God told Noah to take aboard the Ark.

It makes sense that all humans descended from Noah and his eight family members.
All the animals (land mammals), as well as the human race, are descendants of the Ark.
Noah, before the flood, had to have known everything in the Bible up to that time.
Did he memorize it or write it down?
Perhaps he was ignorant, and God later passed on the history of past times to Moses.
However, Moses became aware of the past, and he wrote it all down.
Like Noah, Moses had to have been knowledgeable of the entire biblical past from the beginning of God's creation.
Moses knew everything from the flood to the Exodus.
There is no evidence that this knowledge was in written documents before Moses.
Did Noah have manuscripts on the Ark? We don't know.
Was the biblical history passed down from generation to generation to Noah? We don't know.
Most likely, Adam and Eve orally passed down stories and traditions to Moses through each generation.
Another theory is that Moses learned humanity's history during the forty days and nights that he spent on Mount Sinai with God.
God and Moses must have talked about something.
After spending 40 days and 40 nights with God, Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible.
Moses had 40 years to write it while roaming in the desert.

However Moses got this information, he wrote about it.

If stories were passed down orally, how accurate were the 1600 years of oral tradition from Creation until the Flood?
In grade school, the teacher whispered something into the ear of the student near the right side of her desk.
The whisper went around the room until it ended up with the last student in it, near the left side of her desk.
You know the outcome of this little demonstration.
Instead of the dog getting a treat from the youngest boy in the family for doing beneficial tricks, the young boy got a dog from his family because he didn't play tricks on them and was a good boy.
There were 22 students in the class.
That means there were twenty-two renditions of the story.
How many renditions are there in 1600 years of biblical pass-down?
One would anticipate an entirely different story than the original after 1600 years of oral transmission.
However, the wonderful thing is that the stories never change.
Writing documents accurately is one thing.
Telling a story orally for 1600 years without variations is something else.
Just thought-provoking.
When we compare the creation described in the Bible with the scientific explanation of creation, we detect something amiss.
Ultimately, one must place their trust in either the Bible or the scientific community.
Which is accurate? Maybe neither.
However, we must recognize that for the past 100 years, the scientific community has been slowly and continuously proving the accuracy of the Bible.

Is science 100% accurate?

Surprise! It's not.

It turns out that all the scientific dating methods have flaws and are not exact sciences.
Many scientific methods disagree with each other and are thousands or even millions of years apart.
The scientific explanation of Earth's creation began as a "theory" in the 1800s by one man, a mathematician, whom others bought into.
The theory didn't evolve based on scientific evidence but only on "reasoning" to explain Earth's creation using the logic of the day.
One geologist bought into it and developed the radiometric dating system.
Two geologists in the 1950s bought into the theory and developed a radiocarbon dating system.
Since then, many other dating methods have been created using uranium, samarium, potassium-argon, rubidium-strontium, fission track, uranium-thorium, chlorine-36, luminescence, beryllium, and more.
It turns out that these dating methods have significant inaccuracies and inconsistencies, with discrepancies spanning millions of years.
Sometimes, the scientists tend to interpret their findings with bias.
The scientific community uses these dating systems to support their "theory" of a 5-billion-year-old Earth.

Scientists cannot agree on a single theory about the Earth's creation.
They are still arguing over it.

One source is Space.com.
Several theories can be found on the internet.

The two prominent theories are the core accretion and the disk instability models.
The U.S. Geological Survey is the nation's largest biological science and civilian mapping agency.

It collects, monitors, analyzes, and provides a scientific understanding of natural resource conditions, issues, and problems.
They are the ones who have the authorization to "scientifically" determine the age of the Earth.

Here is the direct quote from their web page.
"So far, scientists have not found a way to determine the exact age of the Earth."
Their website reveals that rocks from other planets determine the Earth's age.
Note that the sampling of those rocks is limited and comes from only a few sources.
According to the theory, the Earth must be as old as other materials discovered in space.
Really?

Here is a theoretical story to ponder:

Henry Bessemer forged a sheet of steel in 1881.

The sheet was stored for future use.
In 1981, Ford Motor Company purchased that sheet of steel.
Ford created a new prototype vehicle that never went into production.
They used this piece of steel, created in 1881, to manufacture a prototype in 1981.
Don't get ahead of me in this story.

In the year 3981, a construction crew excavated a plot of land in Detroit to build a high-rise building.
The workers dig up a weird-looking vehicle.
They have no idea what it is.
They are curious about its age and call in the science crew.
The dating system used in the year 3981 is very accurate and precise to the exact year.
How old does their dating system say that the vehicle is?
Don't get ahead of me.
Their dating system indicated that Ford built the vehicle in 1881.
This information is totally inaccurate because the vehicle was actually built in 1981.
If you haven't already figured out the story, you probably don't believe man walked on the moon either.
The dating system calculated the age of the steel.
It did not calculate the vehicle's age.
Do you see the correlation of this story to Earth's creation?
The rocks are older than the planet, just as the metal was older than the car.
Another fascinating piece of trivia is that scientists now admit that some moon rocks are older than the Earth.

How accurate is the scientific community?

As always, in the scientific community, anyone challenging their "golden standard" goes unheard, ridiculed, shunned, laughed at, and denied participation in their club meetings.

Pythagoras theorized that the Earth was round.
The scientists of the day shunned him for making that statement.
The scientist said, "This can't be real."
Aristarchus figured out in BC that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
This revelation defied the "scientific norm" of the sun rotating around the Earth.
The self-righteous scientists of that time responded, "Not true."
The scientific community shunned Aristarchus, laughed him out of their meetings, and discredited him.
Copernicus went further.

He proposed that we are part of a solar system and that all the planets revolve around the sun.

It took decades for the scientific community to accept the idea of a solar system.
Semmelweis, an obstetrician, published evidence that when doctors washed their hands before examining or treating patients, there was a reduction of illness and mortality.
It went against the medical approach at the time. No one believed him. They shunned and discredited him.

His hospital proved him correct, but it went against the "accepted" tradition of the medical community of self-righteous doctors.
Our human nature was at its peak.
And the list of "scientific misinformation" goes on and on until a rogue scientist is brave enough to challenge the "Club."

The scientific community (the Club) still has the self-egotistical "We know better than you" and "Don't challenge what we think we know" attitude.

If we look, there is evidence available to challenge the scientists.
According to the Christian interpretation of the Bible, Earth was formed 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.
Since then, God has created life and caused the flood, and the world has experienced the rise and fall of Jesus.
The Genesis creation story is a viable explanation of the scientific world.
Modern "rogue scientists," like those listed above, are going against the egos of the mainstream scientific community but are being proven to be correct in showing that the Bible's creation story is viable.
The mainstream scientific community does not want to examine the evidence and admit they are mistaken.
As a side note, watch the documentary "Is Genesis History?" There are also several books out.

Scientific Timeline

This is the timeline generally accepted by the scientific community and proposed by American geochemists Patterson and Tilton, developed by their dating system for decaying uranium in the 1950s.
The timeline assumptions are that scientific radioactivity and carbon dating are accurate.
It has since been proven to have flaws.

Event that took place. Years ago.

Earth was created. 4.4 billion

Microbial life is evident. 3.5 billion

Oxygen-producing
cyanobacteria evolved. 2.4 billion
Fungal life was found. 1.5 billion

Plant life formed. 800 million

Land animals. 600 million

Fish came about. 500 million

Dinosaurs appeared. 100 million

Primates on Earth. 65 million

Apes appeared. 8 million

Caveman. 4 million

Stone tools found. 3 million

Fire and cooking. 1.5 million

Modern Humans. 800 thousand

Oldest pictograph. 5.5 thousand

First hieroglyphic. 5.1 thousand

Oldest Hebrew Text. 4.3 thousand

First Cuneiform. 4.0 thousand

Chinese inscription. 3.3 thousand

Hebrew manuscripts. 3.2 thousand

Earth's timelines of learned individuals and religious organizations vary.

Each entity has its own way of calculating, estimating, or determining its beliefs.

The length of a day or a year within religions can vary. In some cases, a day can mean a year, and a year can mean a century.

Irish physicist and mathematician Lord Kelvin calculated the Earth's age using cooling models to be 20 to 40 million years old.

French naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, calculated Earth's age based on the cooling effect of iron to be 75,000 years ago.

Buddhists believe that the Earth has always existed.
It has no beginning or end.

Muslim scripturalists believe the Earth was created by God approximately 4 to 5 billion years ago.

The Hindu text suggests that Earth was created by Brahma, the secondary creator of the trinity, 4.3 billion years ago.

The Christian Bible implies that Earth was created by Yahweh.
6 to 10 thousand years ago.

Shintos and Taoists have no particular time.

This is a timeline based on the Christian Bible, providing the best estimate of events.

Get the complete timeline here.

God created Earth.
Genesis 1: Year 1 4004 BC

Cain killed Abel.
Genesis:4 1000 3004 BC

Lamech sired Noah at the age of 182.
Genesis:5 1056 2948 BC

Noah built the Ark when he was 600.
Genesis 7 1656 2348 BC

All humans on Earth died in a flood except Noah's family of 8 adults.

Noah died at age 950.
Genesis 9 2006 1998 BC

Amram sired Noah at age 65.
Exodus:2 2477 1527 BC

The Book of Job was written.
Job: 1 2504 1500 BC

Moses led the Exodus at age 80.
Exodus:1 2557 1447 BC

The Lord gave the Ten Commandments.
Exodus:20 2604 1400 BC

Moses died at age 120.
Deut:34 2597 1407 BC

The Hebrew Bible was created.
It consists of 24 parchment scrolls.
3400 400 BC

"The Silent Era."
It exists between the Old and New Testaments; there was no writing for 400 years.

The Septuagint Bible was written.
Greek Text. 3974 30 BC

Jesus is born.
Luke: 2 3945 1 AD

Jesus is crucified.
Matthew:27 3977 33 AD

The last apostle, John, died at 93.
According to the Hebrew Scrolls:

4070 66 AD

The "Dead Era," or "Betrothal Era," began with the crucifixion of Jesus.
Since then, people around the world have been waiting for the return of Jesus.

Vulgate Bible
Latin Translation. Handwritten.
4386 382 AD

The Hebrew Bible—Tanakh.
It is finalized and authorized.
4454 450 AD
The Catholic Church authorized the Latin Vulgate.
4504 600 AD

Latin Vulgate (first printed Bible).
This is the first Gutenberg printing.
5359 1455 AD

Tyndale Bible
This is the first English translation.
5434 1530 AD

King James Bible

This Bible has become the most popular text.

5515 1611 AD

Revised Standard

King James Version.
5805 1901 AD

Since 1901, hundreds of translations have been created.

There are 6,000 years of Earth's biblical history, divided into the first, middle, and last years.

During the first 2,500 years, no discoveries of any biblical documents were made.
TThe assumption is that all Scripture must have been passed down by oral tradition from Adam and Eve, through the family of Noah, and finally to Moses.

Only during the middle 1,500-year period were biblical scriptures and manuscripts physically written down.
Moses is believed to have written down all the scripture that was passed down orally.
He wrote this history down in manuscripts and codices.

These books comprise the first five of the modern Old Testament, known as the Pentateuch.
This text is the foundation and source of the Jewish religion.

DDuring those 1,500 years in the middle period, there were 400 silent years between the writing of the Old and New Testaments.
NNo written documents exist from the silent period.
These "silent years" occurred between the writing of Malachi in 430 BC and the Gospel of Luke in 50 AD.
Eight men authored the New Testament between 50 AD and 95 AD.

During the last 1,500 "dead years," no new written documents have been produced.
The mainstream Christian community has produced copies and translations but has not created any new revelations, manuscripts, or documents.
Other religions recognize new texts, but the mainstream Christian community is skeptical about their authenticity.

The Mormons possess the Book of Mormon, while the Islamic world has the Koran, as two examples.
Are they the true revelations from the heavenly maker of the earth and humanity?

Believers in those religions believe the books came from God.

During those past 1,500 years, since the apostles' deaths, no "new" documented written biblical history has come forth.

This belief stems from the "wedding story" that Jesus explained in a parable to his disciples before his crucifixion.

The "groom" (Jesus) has left to prepare a "new home" for his "bride" (the believers).

The world will be quiet during this "betrothal period" until the day Jesus returns to gather his believers.

The specific day is unknown and determined by God.
The Bible explicitly states that even Jesus does not know the day of his return.

During this betrothal period, we are expected to reconcile ourselves with God.

If someday people standing or sitting next to you instantly disappear, and you don't, you need to worry.