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Creation Timeline

Updated: May 27, 2026

Published: July 11, 2006

Color-coded “Genesis 1 Creation Days” timeline presenting a concordist view, noting that scientific findings are seen as consistent with Scripture. The chart aligns the six creation "days" with Earth’s ~4.5-billion-year history, highlighting major events from Earth’s formation and early life to plants, animals, and modern humans.

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Creation Timeline Table

From the Moment of Creation to Man

Time From Creation EventEvent
0moment of creation (some kind of singularity)
0 to 10-43 secondsrelease of space curvature
10-43 secondsloss of dimensions
10-43 secondssuperforce separates into gravity and the strong electroweak force
10-35 secondsstrong electroweak separates into the strong and electroweak forces
10-35 secondsphotons and leptons appear
10-11 secondselectroweak force separates into the weak and electromagnetic forces
10-10 secondsquarks appear
10-5 to 10-4 secondsbaryons and anti-baryons appear
0.001 secondsannihilation of anti-matter occurs
3 minutesnuclei appear
300,000 yearsatoms appear; light separates from darkness (outer space becomes black)
365 million yearsfirst stars form
500 million yearsfirst galaxies appear
2 billion yearsall manner of quasars and galaxies appear
9 billion yearssolar system appears
10 billion yearslife created on Earth
13 billion yearscreation of dozens of new phyla (Cambrian explosion)
13.5 billion yearscreation of dinosaurs
13.73 billion yearscreation of man
13.73 billion yearsthe present