Bible Timeline

14 Billion years ago Big Bang God spoke the Big Bang

4.5 Billion years ago Earth created – Young earth creationists claim 4004 BC

3.7 Billion years ago – Photosynthesis

550 Million years ago – Plants and animals development

65 Million years ago – Dinosaurs went extinct

2 million years ago – Homo erectus

270,000 years ago – Y-DNA haplogroup macro-lineage outside of Africa

200,000 years ago – Homo sapiens

50,000 years ago – Language developed – Perhaps as early as 100,000 yrs. ago

30,000 years ago – Culture developed – Perhaps as early 45,000 yrs. ago

10,000 years ago – Jericho appears as a city-state

9600 BC – Abrupt period of global warming – Glacial retreat

7,000 years ago – Pottery

3,000-5,000 years ago – Written language – Sumerians of Mesopotamia (Iraq)

2,000 BC Abraham enters Canaan – Glass and alcohol made

1200-1400 BC Moses – Knossos Palace destroyed earthquake

1162 BC – Gideon – Destruction of Troy

1000 BC – David – Philistines have iron

959 BC – Solomon completes temple – Gold vessels

930 BC – Kingdom divides – Celts invade Britain

722 BC – Israel (Northern Kingdom) Falls To Assyria; Rome founded (753 BC)

605 BC – Daniel taken captive – Temple of Artemis in Ephesus

586 BC – Judah (Southern Kingdom) Falls To Babylon; Buddha born 563 BC

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

516 BC – Temple restored (Ezra/Nemiah) – Rome Republic (509 BC)

479 BC – Ester Queen of Persia – Socrates born (469 BC)

330 BC – Aramaic replaces Hebrew – Alexander

165 BC – Judas Maccabeus leads revolt – Hanukah celebrates this victory

37 BC – Herod begins to rebuild Temple – Anthony and Cleopatra

5 BC? Jesus and Paul born – London founded 43 AD

67 AD – Paul martyred – Nero

70 AD -Titus – destroys Temple

73 AD – Jewish suicide at Masada – Mt. Vesuvius 79 AD; Roman Coliseum

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. 

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