A comparison by Marc Carlson
It was last edited 9 June 2004
| 1000 BCE | 2000 CE |
| Day 1: The universe is unformed and void, with darkness over the deep, and the Spirit of God over the Abyss (or the Deep). |
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| God said "let there be Light" | 15 Billion years BP The Big Bang |
| And God separated the Darkness from the Light, into the 1st Day (Time begins) | BB+10-43 Seconds. "Plank Time" The universe begins to differentiate. Time begins. Gravity becomes a separate force. |
| BB+10-36 Seconds. Separation of the Strong Force triggers the
Inflation of the Universe |
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| BB+10-32 Seconds. The Universe assumes something more like its current size. | |
| BB+10-13 Seconds. Electromagnetism begins. | |
| BB+3 minutes. The universe has cooled enough for Protons and Neutrons to combine | |
| BB+3,000 years. Matter exceeds Energy as the principle source of gravity. | |
| Day 2: God created a firmament to separate the water below the expanse from the water above the expanse |
BB+3x105 years (according to the COBE microwave measurements) the universe reaches its current temperature. Atoms are able to form. |
| Day 3: The water beneath the sky was gathered about to let the dry land appear. |
BB+2x108 years. Galaxy formation begins. |
| God creates the Garden, and whips up Man from the Dust. | BB+1.05x1010 years/4.5 Billion BCE. The Earth is formed |
| Trees and other vegetation appear | c.3.3 Billion BCE First living single celled creatures. |
| Day 4: The Stars, the Sun the Moon are created. |
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| Day 5: Living creatures, birds, sea creatures, and creeping things |
c.700 Million BCE - 64 Million BCE 1st "Animals" to Dinosaurs |
| Day 6: *More* living creatures,cattle wild beasts of every kind. |
c.64 million BCE The beginning of age of Mammals |
| Humans are created again (or Man and Woman are separated from the single being they were before). | c.500,000 BCE Homo Sapiens appears |
| Food plants. | c.15,000 - 8,000 BCE Cereal plants are domesticated. |
| Day 7: God Rested. |
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| Later, humans are banished from the garden, have offspring, Cain is sent off into the lands east of Eden, where his son Enoch establishes the first city. |
c.10,000-8,000 BCE The first cities are established (possibly near Jerico) |