As a point of reference, consider the following Origins timeline.
| Time | Event of Significance |
|---|---|
| 12-15 bya | Big Bang Creation of our Universe - "In the beginning, God created the heavens..." |
| 5 bya | Our Sun begins to form |
| 4.5 bya | Age of the Earth |
| 4.45 bya | Estimate for age of the Moon |
| 4.2 bya | Oldest rocks - mineral grains of zircon |
| 3.8 bya | Heavy asteroid bombardment ceases |
| 3.8 bya | Biochemical evidence of bacterial life |
| 3.2-3.6 bya | Fossilized bacteria |
| 2.1 bya | Grypania cf. spiralis (Algae) (Michigan) - Oldest megascopic fossils |
| 1.6 bya | Eukaryotes (acritarchs) show up in fossil record |
| 1.3 bya | Date yielded by evolutionary genetic analysis for the split between land and aquatic fungi |
| 1.1 bya | Trace fossils of worm-like creatures |
| 600 mya | First metazoans found in the fossil record - "Ediacara fauna" |
| 540 - 505 mya | Cambrian Explosion - (molluscs, annelids, arthropods, and brachiopods). |
| 530 mya | Oldest fossil fish - Haikouichthys ercaicunensis |
| 511 mya | Fossil crustaceans |
| 439 mya | Ordovician-Silurian extinction - 60% marine genera wiped out |
| 400 mya | Vascular plants appear in the fossil record |
| 400 mya | Coelacanth Fish (still alive today) |
| 375 mya | First amphibians |
| 280 mya | Supercontinent Pangea forms |
| 251 mya | Permian-Triassic extinction - 95% of all species wiped out |
| 265 mya | Beetles appear |
| 235 mya | First fossilized dinosaur found |
| 230 mya | Fossilized moss |
| 220 mya | Oldest fossil nests |
| 195 mya | Shrew like mammalian skull found - Hadrocodium wui |
| 160 mya | Small Mammal teeth found |
| 155 mya | Archaeopteryx - first bird found |
| 130 mya | Flowering plants appear in the fossil record |
| 130 mya | Feathered dinosaur - Dromaeosaur specimen |
| 130 mya | Sinovenator changii - Fossil with bird-like shoulder joint, a wishbone and a pelvic bone |
| 130 mya | Confuciusornis dui - oldest beaked bird |
| 92 mya | Oldest fossil ant preserved in amber |
| 80 mya | Apsaravis ukhaana - earliest of ornithornithine birds |
| 65 mya | Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction - Dinosaurs wiped out |
| 5.6 mya | Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba |
| 4.4 mya | Kanapoi humerus - controversial homo-like elbow fossil find |
| 3.6 mya | Laetoli footprints - controversial fossilized human like footprints |
| 3.5 mya | Kenyanthropus platyops |
| 3.4-4.0 mya | Australopithecus afarensis |
| 2.5 mya | Oldest fossil tools |
| 1.9 mya | KNM-ER 1470 Modern skull assigned by most evolutionists to Homo habilis |
| 1.6-2.0 mya | Homo erectus appears in fossil record |
| 135 kyr | Genetic analysis yields this date for human domestication of wolves |
| 130 kyr | First evidence of human burial in Croatia |
| 120 kyr | Homo sapiens appears in fossil record |
| 80 kyr | First religious sanctuary in Switzerland |
| 60 kyr | Ancestors of dogs and cats appear in fossil record |
| 30 kyr | Last appearances of Homo erectus (Java) and Neanderthal (Spain) species |
| 2 kyr | When God became a man - "For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son..." |
