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Hey, I have this secular project for school that has bothered me for some time (can you believe he gave me this on spring break!!!?!!! ). I must create a timeline of the age of the Earth, obviously something I wouldn't like to do, at least in the secular sense. I am asking for help because I cannot find resources for some of the topics that I need to put on it.

These topics are: (according to "science" )
Separation of Pangaea
First appearance of homo-sapiens
First Ice Age
First Ocean

Please help. This is driving me up the wall.

Try Reason to Believe's website for resources, http://www.reasons.org.

Hope that helps!

SailorDove wrote:Try Reason to Believe's website for resources, http://www.reasons.org.

Hope that helps!

I told my friend about my problem, and he came over right before I signed on with a timeline from http://www.reasons.org about five minutes ago. I'm going to use the site to find resources (like how you just said.) Thank you so much for your appreciation though!

First Ice Age
First Ocean

I only have a little bit of time right now, so I'll just give a brief run down on these two. Both of them occured sometime during the Pre-cambrian. It's an open question of exactly when the first ocean appeared, although it would have been quite early in the Earth's history. Essentially, it's thought that when the Earth initially formed most of the volatile compunds such as water would have escaped into space owing tto the extreme heat of the Earth. What water we have now, is probabaly the result of the so-called 'Hadean bombardment', in which the early Earth was bombarded with comets and the like.

The earliest evidence for glaciation that we have comes from the later Pre-Cambrian, starting around 2 billion years ago. Another period seems to have occured later and ended around 600 million years ago.
http://gemini.oscs.montana.edu/~geol445/hyperglac/time2/
http://www.geo.msu.edu/geo333/Precambrian.html


I'll try to get a little more later. You might want to try reading Knoll's "Life on a Young Planet", so check out your library. You might also want to look for books on historical geology.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691009783/104-2902108-2945565?v=glance&n=283155

I have to go, but I'll try to post a few more resources later. It sounds like a fascinating project. You should relish the opportunity.

Also see:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/change/deeptime/

General mod note: this has all the markings of becoming creationist vs. evolutionist, so no debating please.

hmm, seems like the secular system has put you in a situation where it'll be hard to make many Christ-honoring moves. It is quite obvious that they want you to state these evolutionist ideas as if they were truth, but I'd advise you not to. However, I can help you with one point that sticks out in my mind... In the Bible, Job refers to what appears to be the ice age happening in his time. Do some biblical chronology study and you should be able to figure out when that was going on.

Unless they're asking you to make a timeline in accordance with a single particular source... then you're screwed and have to echo what that source says... but if that isn't the case, remember that it would be wrong and illegal for your teacher to mark you off for stating things from a Christian (Creationist) POV.

PM me if you want specific ideas.

That didn't last long.

Slater, do you even read mod notes on threads?