This first timeline shows us the beginnings of the universe at 13.7 billion years ago and the shaded portion is all of the events that take place up to the beginning of the earth at 4.5 billion years ago. During this time all of the stars and galaxies come into existence.
The secular scientist bases his dating of this period on:
- the date the earth begins
- astronomy and astrophysics
- microwave background radiation
- temperature of the coolest white dwarf star
- red shift
- expansion of the universe
In a biblical understanding of beginnings, these events would have taken place on day 4 of creation week.
Genesis 1 14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. 17 God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
This second timeline shows the time from the beginnings of the earth to the beginnings of life.
The secular scientist bases his timeline on:
- uniformitarian principles of geology
- radiometric dating of crystals found deep in the earth
- dating of meteorites
- dating of moon rocks
This is days 1-3 of creation week on a biblical timeline.
Genesis 1 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
6 Then God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” 7 God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. 8 God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
9 Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good…. 13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
The remainder of the week of creation, from the remainder of day 3 through day 6 tells of the origin of every form of life on earth.
And the first few chapters of Genesis tell us of the first 1656 years of life on earth. Man multiplied...man built cities...man developed technology...man became evil...and God determined to destroy the earth and all of its life as man knew it, preserving only a few individuals to begin again.
And so we come to the next timeline of history...
This timeline starts with the beginnings of life and goes to the beginning of the ice age and the early so-called ancestors of man.
The secular scientist bases this timeline on
- uniformitarian principles of geology
- radiometric dating
- fossil record
This is not slow processes and evolution we see in this timeline, but the record of the destruction of all of pre-flood life. The fossils in this record begin with those that would be buried first in the flood...the sea-bottom dwellers...and ends with those who had the greatest ability to escape the rising flood waters (at least for a time). These are flood deposits. Any records of pre-flood civilizations would be found in these layers of rock, like we find the animals who lived in the pre-flood times, or would be found "undisturbed" in pre-cambrian layers.
To really get an understanding of the tremendous amount of destruction we are dealing with in the flood, go back to the posts on the flood and re-read them, particularly going to the link for the hydroplate theory of the flood.
To be continued in the next post.
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