Was The Great Flood of Noah A Global Event? And Where Did The Rains Got Its Waters

Was the Great Inundation of Noah a global event, and where did the rain waters came from?

Subsequent to two articles about Noah, dinosaurs, food supply and their preservation, the number of animal spieces that could be accommodated into his ark I wrote a day or two earlier here:

 https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/search?q=noah+and+dinosaurs

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2022/07/following-my-blog-write-up-here.html

 there was another question a church friend asked me several hours ago, if the Great Flood during Noah’s time was a global event, or was it just localized around the region where Noah built his ark. I decided to pen my thoughts on this as well. 

In order to answer this, let’s look at Genesis 8:4 that says, “and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Let take three of the world’s highest mountains:

Mount Everest in the Himalayas in Nepal and Tibet at 8,850 metres (29,035 feet), followed by Mount Godwin Austen in Karakoram, Pakistan-China at 8,610 metres (28,250 feet), and Mt. Kangchenjunga, Himalayas, India-Nepal at 8586 meters (28.169 feet).

(1 foot = 0.3048 metre).

Mount Ararat is located in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey between the provinces of Agrı and Igdır, near the border with Iran, Armenia and Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, between the Aras and Murat rivers. The Serdarbulak lava plateau, at 2,600 meters of elevation, separates the peaks of Greater and Little Ararat.  Mount Ararat's summit is located some 16 km (10 mi) west of the Turkey-Iran border and 32 km (20 mi) south of the Turco-Armenian border. The Ararat plain runs along its northwest to western side. Ararat is the third most prominent mountain in West Asia.

An elevation of 5,165 m (16,946 ft) for Mount Ararat is given by some encyclopaedias and reference works such as Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary and Encyclopaedia of World Geography. However, a number of sources, such as the United States Geological Survey and numerous topographic maps indicate that the alternatively widespread figure of 5,137 m (16,854 ft) is probably more accurate. The current elevation may be as low as 5,125 m (16,814 ft) due to the melting of its snow-covered ice cap.  

Let us assume during Noah’s time the climate was much colder, and the height of Mount Ararat covered by ice And snow where the ark rested as given in Genesis 8:4 was 5,165 metres.

Let us take a look at three highest mountains as examples for comparison.

Mount Everest in the Himalayas in Nepal and Tibet at 8,850 metres (29,035 feet), followed by Mount Godwin Austen in Karakoram, Pakistan-China at 8,610 metres (28,250 feet), and Mt. Kangchenjunga, Himalayas, India-Nepal at 8586 meters (28.169 feet).

This means, Everest is 41.6 %, Godwin Austen 40.0 % and Kangchenjunga 39.8 % higher than Mt. Ararat. Probably three mountains among others higher than Mt. Ararat were not affected by the global inundation if the flood waters did not rise far higher than Mt. Ararat?

Let us assume the flood water at maximum was at the elevation of Mt. Ararat where the ark rested, and was not higher. Even at that level, rains that poured for 40 days and 40 nights would not be a regional, let alone a localized event, but an incident that would have flooded the entire planet Earth except the highest mountains.

Our next dilemma would be the amount of rainfall, and how much water that would that be to rise up  above sea level? Let us now make some simple calculations.

We know the average radius of Earth was and is still the same at 6,371 kilometres (6,371,000 metres) with a 0.3% variability (±10 km). If the water rose to 5,165 metres which is or was the elevation of Mt. Ararat, it will add to 6,376,165 metres in radius. This means there was an addition water volume above the oceans given by new volume minus the volume of Earth prescribed by the V2 – V1 (4/3 π r^ 3), where V1 is the radius of Earth at sea level, and V2 is the additional and final volume after the rains and great flood.

This works out to be an additional 1.0858 x 10^21 – 1.0832 x 10^21 = 2.6 x ^18 (2,600 000,000,000,000,000 ) cubic metres of water to cover up to Mt. Ararat.

The total surface area of Earth is given by 4πr², where r is the radius of Earth at 6,371,000 metres).  This works out to be: 4π × (6.371×10^6)²  = 5.100644719×10¹⁴ (510.1 trillion) square metres.

But the rains blasted for 40 days and 40 nights (960 hours) non-stop, each hour the rain delivered 5.31 cubic metres of water per square metre uniformly spread out all over the surface of this Earth till it reached to the top of Mt. Ararat.

Such an inundation was clearly no longer a local phenomenon, but a global flood event, and I am not interested in what others say, but my calculations here clearly showed the flood water covered the entire world else it would not be able to reach up to Mt. Ararat which was 5,165 metres in altitude, except higher mountains like Mt. Everest.  Isn’t mathematics not convincing enough?

Having settled that, let us now examine where did all those rains got its waters from? Surely not from the oceans by evaporation through the normal water cycle as we know it. If it was, the rains could never cause the oceans and seas to rise above sea-level as the rains would merely replace back to the same level what was evaporated out. It would remain the same as it is now no matter how hard and long it rained.

Hence, the extra water must have come from somewhere else outside this Earth if I think logically. But from where? Surely not from the Moon or from any of the eight or nine planets in the Solar System counting in smaller bodies such as dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets.

There is only one possibility I would propose my hypothesis at this point in writing.  At a distance between about 2,000 and 100,000 astronomical units (AU) from and surrounding the Sun, there lies a huge massive cloud of icy bodies and comets

This is the Oort Cloud, a spherical layer of icy objects surrounding our Solar System. This massively huge cloud of icy objects lies between 300 billion to 15 trillion km from the Sun.

 Occasionally, the gravitational pull of the Sun may tug one of these icy comets or bodies towards the direction of the Sun and Earth.

May I propose here that during the time of Noah between 2448 B.C. and 1848 B.C, one of these very large icy bodies may have arrived very close to the Sun and Earth to be caught by the Earth’s gravitational pull to be whipped in to orbit round and round the Earth, discharging its icy chucks as rains melted by the Sun as it orbited round and round this Earth. This event is the only probability I can think of as I type to account for such massive rains as this extra-terrestrial ice orbited round and round this Earth for 40 days and 40 nights.

This is the hypothesis I propose, albeit we have no records or evidence of such an extra-terrestrial visit.  

I shall rest my case and article here for my gentle readers to ponder over

Lim ju boo

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did Noah Bring in All those Billions of Life Forms into his Ark?

Following my blog write up here:

                                     

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/?zx=6002ef2770615bb7

 

someone in “My Friend” WhatsApp group then was asking how did Noah preserve and store all those foods, probably in their tens of hundreds of tons for the animals he brought into his ark without refrigerators or any form of refrigeration? I have not even thought of this problem before.

 

Yes, that was a very relevant and interesting question as it rained for 40 days, and 40 nights, and this was a very long time for food to be preserved. But the Bible didn’t tell how that was done. I suppose the Bible is not a science book or a book on food science, food technology or on food quality control to describe all those logistics.

 

But I believe even without refrigeration, food can be preserved and kept for a very long time especially plant-based foods like hay, straws, grasses, fodders and dry feeds.

 

All these foods for animals can be dried in the sun before the rains come for Noah and his family as the adage says “make hay while the sun shines”.

 

I also suspect most of the animals Noah brought into his ark were grass-eating animals and plant feeders and were not meat-eaters like lions, tigers and crocodiles.

 

But what bewilders me was how it was possible for Noah to bring in so many species of animals into his ark. 

 

Exceeding 99% of the estimated four or five billion species that have evolved on Earth have now gone extinct. At least nearly 1,000 species are now gone over the last five hundred years.

 

The Cambrian Period was part of the Paleozoic Era. This period extended from 541 million to 485.4 million years ago when it saw the most prolific explosion of life on this planet, Earth has ever known.

 

This period produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known. We call this the Cambrian Radiation. It witnessed an incredible diversity of life that emerged, including many major animal groups in existence till today.

 

Most of them were the lower life forms like chordates to which animals with backbones (vertebrates) like humans belong.

 

However, there were at least four major extinctions that befell during the Cambrian Radiation. The first extinction occurred at the Early Cambrian epoch boundary. During that event, the oldest group of trilobites, the olnellids, perished as well as the primary reef-building organisms, the archaeocyathids.

 

 

The remaining three disappearances were irregularly distributed around the Late Cambrian epoch boundary. On the whole, it severely affected the trilobites, brachiopods, and conodonts.

 

 

It was believed that Noah was born in 2448 B.C. in Shulon, East Eden. He died 1848 B.C. in Salem, Cannan. Noah was then five hundred years old; and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ' (Genesis 5:32). This means the Great Flood occurred between those two periods. That period was 485 million years after the Cambrian Period when most life, at least the lower forms of life had already evolved.

 

 

It was mostly the phyla that originated then, but there's been so much turnover that the families and orders got replaced and became non-existent over the past 500 million years, most critically during the Ordovician Radiation, the Permian mass extinction, the Mesozoic marine revolution and the KT extinction.

 

 

Cambrian Period, earliest time division of the Paleozoic Era, extending from 541 million to 485.4 million years ago. But we are not clear how many species of life were evolved then. But we are sure there were no mammals then.

 

More than 17,000 species are known to have survived until the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million years ago.

 

But I think it was about 3.6 million years ago that human-like Australopithecus afarensis footprints were seen as well as the emergence of more advanced animals. These animals were seen in the Galapagos Islands by Naturalist Charles Darwin. It was then also a rise of other mammals in the Panama Isthmus and advanced animals probably Noah brought into his ark millions of years later.

 

True humans like Adam and Eve emerged after all animals including apes, chimpanzees and other hominids were created or evolved. 

Before them it was clear the plants were created first as described in Genesis 11 to provide oxygen through phtosynthesis before all other air-breathing creatures became possible.

It is also clear that life evolved from the oceans and seas first, then the birds of the air as given in Genesis 20 - 27.

Later other land creatures came into existence before humans were created.

Then out of the oceans and seas, the fishes and all other aquatic creatures came into being before they became reptiles to creep into dry land where they further evolved into "glorifed reptiles" as birds of the air

This tallies beautifully from what we know in the time scale on the evolution of life on earth.

See 4 Billion Years of Life Creation here:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2021/02/4-billion-years-of-life-creation.html

It was around 2.5 million years ago then tools were used by humans 

 

Noah came much later after Adam and Eve. As mentioned, Noah was born in 2,448 B.C. which was approximately 4,448 years ago. By then a good number of warm-blooded animals and mammals besides humans were already in existence, but how many species of animals or even hominids as described in Genesis 6 before the Flood became possible we are uncertain. 

 

Conservatively, we may put them at least 100,000 versus 5,500 mammals currently. Some half the species have since gone extinct since Noah’s time, whether destroyed by the Great Flood or through Natural Selection we are unclear.

 

Even at these very conservative numbers on mammals alone, not counting reptiles and other cold-blooded animals, that was an awful lot of animals even if just one each in a pair Noah needed to accommodate into his ark?

 

Our question and a very pertinent one is, would it totally be impossible for Noah to collect all those few billion types of life, in pairs too, to accommodate them into his ark, and also supply all of them with food for 40 days and 40 nights during rains and the Great Flood?

 

 

Then what about all those aquatic animals like various types of fishes, different kinds of whales, sharks, manta ray, seals, dolphins, etc. Were they left alone into the seas and waters or were they also brought into the ark? Were all these sea creatures also destroyed by the Great Inundation.

 

In the insect world, scientists specializing in taxonomy documented there are currently more than 1 million species of insects alone.  Among the insects, ants are the most abundant. These colonial hymenopterans may number to the tune of 10-100,000 trillion individuals globally among the more than 10,000 species.

 

In the Order of Coleoptera, beetles are known to have some 350,000 documented species. For instance, in the United States alone, there are nearly 30,000 types of beetles known. These figures are constantly rising from new species being found.

 

Insects evolved at the same time as the earliest land plants around 480 million years ago, an international study revealed. The earliest fossil evidence for insects is dated at around 400 million years old, but the new study uses genetic techniques to corroborate estimates that they evolved much earlier.

 

Hence, we can safely conclude insects alone have long existed even before Noah. Our question would be, did Noah included all those insects, ants and beetles in pair as into his ark? After all, insects zoologically-speaking are also animals? 

 

What about the bacteria, microbes, worms and parasites? Were these 

also brought into the ark? Worms, insects too are zoologically classified as animals.   

 

Another controversy much discussed by the church, debated by scientists and asked by the ordinary man-in-the-street is, was the great flood just localized or regional event, and where did the rains get all those waters?  I shall write on this later. 

 

 

But as far as the number of species of life existed during Noah's time,

and how many types and species he put inside his ark; I am afraid my current knowledge does not allow me to answer some of these issues.  

 

 

Maybe someone else more enlightened may be able to answer 

 

I am willing to learn from them. 

 

jb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Existence of the Dinosaurs in the Bible

 

There are a few videos claims sent to me for comments that dinosaurs existed in the Bible under different names. The question most people asked is, how did Noah managed to catch such huge creatures like dinosaurs and put them into his ark?

In the video below it says although the word ‘dinosaurs’ does not exist in the Bible, it uses other word like ‘leviathan, behemoth’ or other Hebrew word like ‘tannin’ to mean serpent, dragon since the word ‘dinosaurs’ was invented in 1841 by Sir Richard Owen from the Greek word ‘deinos’ and ‘sauros’ to mean ‘terrible lizard’

What does THE BIBLE say about DINOSAURS? || DINOSAURS in the BIBLE - YouTube

Although I respect the view of Daniel from the DLM Christian Lifestyle in the video, where he quoted numerous verses in the Bible such as in Isaiah 51:9, and Job 40:16 – 18 and elsewhere that uses other words more than 30 times indirectly referring to dinosaurs.

As a Christian myself, allow me to give my alternative or paralleled view as a scientist especially on Evolution

Allow me to have my own independent view on this question here:     

But first of all, here is the Creatio There are a few videos claims sent to me for comments that dinosaurs existed in the Bible under different names. The question most people asked is, how did Noah managed to catch such huge creatures like dinosaurs and put them into his ark?

In the video below it says although the word ‘dinosaurs’ does not exist in the Bible, it uses other word like ‘leviathan, behemoth’ or other Hebrew word like ‘tannin’ to mean  n of the Universe and the History on the Evolution of Life on Earth here: 

Scientific Logic: A Summary on The Creation of The Universe and History of Evolution of Life on Earth 

A shorter summary in point forms on the above site is here on the chronological events describing the emergence of humans. 

Mya means millions of years ago.

5 - 4 Mya Common ancestors of chimps and humans. Formation of current

Galapagos Islands

3.6 Mya Panama Isthmus rise / Lucy fossil / Australopithecus afarensis

footprints

2.5 Mya Tool use

1.8 Mya Homo habilis out of Africa

1.6 Mya Homo erectus in Asia

600,000 years ago. Human / Neanderthal spilt

500,000 years ago. Homo erectus use fire

355,000 Homo heidelbergensis footprints were found

200,000 years ago, anatomically modern human evolved

250,000 – 160,000 Homo sapiens emerged

120,000 Homo language became possible

100,000 years ago, wolf / dog split

79,000 – 15,000 years ago, was the start of Wisconsin glaciations

50,000 years ago, humans migrate from Asia to Australia

45,000 years ago, was the megafauna extinction in Australia

30,000 years ago, human migration from Asia to North America

14,000 – 10,000 years ago, was the domestication of dog and Megafauna extinction

in North America

12,000 years ago, early agriculture began

8,000 years ago, was the domestication of cattle

6,000 years ago, was the domestication of horse

3,000 years ago, iron tools were used

Major extinctions of life took place during:

445 Mya in the Late Ordovician

375 Mya Late Devonian

251 Mya End Permian

200 Mya Late Triassic

65 Mya Cretaceous-Tertiary

During the Mesozoic, or "Middle Life" era, life diversified rapidly and giant reptiles, dinosaurs and other monstrous beasts roamed the Earth. The period, which spans from about 252 million years ago to about 66 million years ago, was also known as the age of reptiles or the age of dinosaurs.

However, during the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) there was an extinction event known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction

During that period there was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, including the dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago.

With the exception of some ectothermic species such as sea turtles and crocodilians, no tetrapods weighing more than 25 kilograms survived. It marked the end of the Cretaceous Period, and with it the Mesozoic era, while heralding the beginning of the Cenozoic era, which continues to this day.

It was millions of years later that the Great Pyramids of Giza and their elaborate burial complexes were built during a frenetic period of construction, roughly between 2550 to 2490 B.C. They were built by Pharaohs. They were already there even Moses came into being in the Bible.

One theory giving the date of Moses in Egypt was in I Kings 6:1 that the Exodus from Egypt occurred 480 years before Solomon began building the Temple in Jerusalem. This occurred in the fourth year of his reign, about 960 BCE; therefore, the Exodus would date about 1440 BCE.

It was believed that Noah was born 2448 B.C. in Shulon, East Eden. He died 1848 B.C. in Salem, Cannan. Noah was then five hundred years old; and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth. ' (Genesis 5:32). This means the Great Flood occurred between those two periods.

But then palaeontologists found the 'Age of Dinosaurs' occurred during the Mesozoic Era that consists of the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods. Different dinosaur species lived during each of these three periods

The Mesozoic era was a period that stretched from 248 to 65 million years ago. It is divided into the three time periods in which the dinosaurs lived: the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. 

These three periods were long, long before even Noah was born. It is estimated the Great Flood during Noah’s time began approximately 4,359 years ago around 2,348 BC. This period was long, long after all the dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period after roaming on Earth for about 165 million years.

Hence, we can see there are huge gaps in time from the time God created the heavens and earth till the emergence of man and his activities given in the Bible. We cannot blame what was written in the Bible and all the missing geological and biological events not described there because the Bible is not a science book to give all the details. It is up to us scientists in various disciplines to find out to fill up the details and all the gaps and missing links. God gave us brains to think for ourselves. The Bible is far, far more important for our salvation than just a science book. It is a book on eternal salvation for us all.

If the Bible was a science book, then no number of libraries collectively throughout the entire world could describe all those details on Creation and on how life was evolved and existed in praise of the wondrous works of God as an Intelligent Designer. It is up to us to use our brains He gave us to think, discover and analyse all His incredible works of Arts, Science and Designs

However, in the eyes of science based on fossil records and biblical dates, there was no possibility for Noah to bring any dinosaurs into his Ark. Even if dinosaurs still existed, they are far too huge, even as baby dinosaurs as some claimed, to be brought into the boat Noah built unless we are talking about birds which are one form of dinosaurs which exist still today

Dinosaurs were prehistoric reptiles that have existed on Earth from about 245 million years ago to the present. Modern birds are one kind of dinosaur that share a common ancestor with non-avian dinosaurs.

Non-avian or non-bird dinosaurs which are now extinct as it would be even during Noah’s time varied greatly in shape and size. Some weighed as much as 80 tons and were more than 37 metres long. Others were the size of a chicken and weighed as little as 3 -4 kg. All non-avian dinosaurs lived on land. Some may have gone into the swamps and lakes for food, but they did not live entirely in water. Meat-eating dinosaurs walked on two legs and hunted alone or in groups. Plant-eaters walked on either two or four legs and grazed on plants.

Most people think that dinosaurs were those huge terrible lizard-like monsters. This is true only to a certain extent. For examples, the dimensions of some of the largest dinosaurs were the Supersarus measuring 32 – 42 metres by 35 – 40 tons, Maraapunisaurus 30 – 40 metres by 87 -132 tons, Argentinosaurus 30 – 35 metres by 72 – 110 tons, Patagotitan 31 – 37 metres by 57- 85 tons. They were definitely huge and massive.

But there are smallest present-day dinosaurs too such as Parvicursor remotus which is not definitely not an avian or bird in origin. Parvicursor remotus weighs only 185 grams by 50 centimetres long. Among living dinosaurs, the bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae) is smallest “glorified dinosaur” at 1.9 g, and 5.5 cm long

Present day birds evolved from dinosaurs that were reptiles. Hence from the evolutionary biology point of view, birds are "glorified reptiles", and so are glorified dinosaurs as the origin and early evolution of birds.

By the time Noah existed 60 million years later, all those ancient dinosaurs were already long extinct and there was no way he could have brought in a monstrous-size one into his ark.

But he brought in a raven or a dove into his ark to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.

In this way, if we look from the view of evolutionary biology, then we can indirectly claim Noah brought in a dinosaur into his ark, but not those monstrous lizards. 

That’s my take in the science of evolution  

A Summary on The Creation of The Universe and History of Evolution of Life on Earth

A Summary on The Creation of the Universe and Evolution of Life

on Earth

lim ju boo 

Genesis 1

King James Version

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

² And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

³ And God said, let there be light: and there was light.

⁴ And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

⁵ And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

⁶ And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

⁷ And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

⁸ And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

⁹ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

¹⁰ And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

¹¹ And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

¹² And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

¹³ And the evening and the morning were the third day.

¹⁴ And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide 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 firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

¹⁶ And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

¹⁸ And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

²⁰ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

²¹ And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

²² And God blessed them, saying, be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

²³ And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

²⁴ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

²⁵ And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

²⁶ And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

²⁷ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

³⁰ And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

³¹ And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

 

Creation in the Eyes of  a Scientist:

 

Astronomical Big Bang 13.8 billion years (4.3549488 x 10 ^ 17 seconds) ago

Age of Earth 4.543 billion years = 1.43366 x 10 ^ 17 seconds ago

1 day = 86,400 seconds

1 year = 365.25 days = 31,557,600 seconds   

100 year = 3,155,760,000 seconds

 

If the Creation of the Universe through the Big Bang was 13.8 billion years

ago, and if our human life span at maximum last for 100 years, then our lifespan last  only 7.3 x 10^-9   (0.0,000,000,073) of this, and only

2.2 x 10^-8 (0.000,000,022) of a fraction compared the creation of

Earth 4.543 billion years ago.

 

Another way of putting this is, if the age of the Universe at 13.8 billion years was just one day of Creation, then 100 years of our lives lasts for just 0.23 second  

 

But if the age of Earth at 4.543 billion years was just one day in Creation,

then 100 years of our lives last just 0.7 second 

 

 

Age of Earth and History of Evolution of Life on Earth:

1. 4,500 – 4,400 million years ago (Mya). Accretion of Earth

2. 4,200 million years ago (Mya) Atmosphere and oceans form

3. 4,000 million years ago (Mya) Prebiotic chemistry became possible

4. 3,800 million years ago RNA world shown by the first chemical fossil

available (viruses)

5. 3,600 million years ago the first DNA protein life came into existence

6. 3,500 million years ago LUCA: Archaea / Bacteria spilt and also

photosynthesis (autotrophy) began

7. 2,700 – 1,900 million years ago the first eukaryotes / sexual reproduction

became possible

8. 1,000 Mya?

9. 650 Mya Metazoans

10. 575 Oldest large organisms

11. 555 Mya Oldest sponge fossils

12. 542 – 488 Mya Cambrian Radiation

13. 525 Mya Earliest vertebrates

14. 440 Mya First vascular land plants

15. 425 Mya First jawed vertebrates

16. 420 Mya Earliest terrestrial animals

17. 396 Mya First insects

18. 365 Mya Plants evolves seeds and first tetrapods

19. 354 Mya Insects flight

20. 350 Mya First land-swelling vertebrates

21. 240 Mya First dinosaurs

22. 210 Mya First mammals

23. 200 Mya Pangea breakup begins

24. 150 Mya Archaeopteryx / birds’ flight

25. 140 Mya Flowering plants

26. 128 – 124 Dinosaurs flight

27. 125 Mya Mammalian gliding flight

28. 105 – 95 Mya Gondwanaland breakup

29. 90- 80 Mya Formation of Galapagos geological hot spot

30. 57 – 53 Mya Whale ancestor

31. 55 Mya Australia breaks away from Antarctica

32. 51 Mya Mammalian powered flights (bats)

33. 50 Mya First fossil Equidae

34. 45.6 Whale ancestor

35. 40 Mya Primate order diverges

36. 35 Mya First grasses evolve

37. 30 Mya Old-world / new-world monkey spilt

38. 25 Mya Old-world monkey / apes split. Also Drosophila melanogaster / D.

obscura split

39. 15 Mya Apes migrate to Asia

40. 6 -7 Mya Sahelanthropus

41. 5 - 4 Mya Common ancestors of chimps and humans. Formation of current

Galapagos Islands

History on the Emergence of human-like and humans:

42. 3.6 Mya Panama Isthmus rise / Lucy fossil / Australopithecus afarensis

footprints

43. 2.5 Tool use

44. 1.8 Mya Homo habilis out of Africa

45. 1.6 Mya Homo erectus in Asia

46. 600,000 years ago Human / Neanderthal spilt

47. 500,000 years ago Homo erectus use fire

48. 355,000 Homo heidelbergensis footprints

49. 200,000 years ago Anatomically modern human

50. 250,000 – 160,000 years ago Homo sapiens arose

51. 120,000 Homo language possible

52. 100,000 years ago Wolf / dog split

53. 79,000 – 15,000 years ago Start of Wisconsin glaciations

54. 50,000 years ago. Humans migrate from Asia to Australia

55. 45,000 years ago. Megafauna extinction in Australia

56. 30,000 years ago. Human migration from Asia to North America

57. 14,000 – 10,000 years ago. Domestication of dog and Megafauna extinction

in North America

58. 12,000 years ago. Early agriculture

59. 8,000 years ago Domestication of cattle

60. 6,000 years ago Domestication of horse

61. 3,000 years ago Iron tools

Major extinctions of life took place during:

62. 445 Mya in the Late Ordovician

63. 375 Mya Late Devonian

64. 251 Mya End Permian

65. 200 Mya Late Triassic

66. 65 Mya Cretaceous-Tertiary