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To: Cyprian who wrote (15110)5/10/2007 5:13:53 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) of 22250
 
Cyprian > The fossil record testifies of a worldwide universal flood. All that water from the Flood made lots of mud, and lots of creatures perished in the flood, and were mired in the mud. Then the waters abated, the mud dried up and hardened, and you end up with fossils.

Of course, but you don't believe anything like this, or do you?!! My understanding is that Creationists believe the world is about 5000 years old.

nitro.biosci.arizona.edu

>>The Geological Timetable

Precambrian Eon

590 million - 4.5 billion years ago
From the formation of the earth to the explosion of multicellular life

4.5 billion years ago (BYA): Earth formed
3.8 BYA Oldest terrestrial rocks
3.5 BYA Earliest clear evidence of fossil bacteria
2.5 BYA Origin of aerobic photosynthesis, creation of
oxygen-rich atmosphere
1.5 BYA First clear evidence of eukarytoic fossils
1.0 BYA Protists (single-celled eukaryotes) diversify
0.8 BYA Earliest clear traces of fossil invertebrates


Phanerozoic Eon

590 MYA to present: The diversification of multicellular life

Paleozoic Era 590 -248 MYA Fishes and amphibians dominate
Mesozoic Era 248 - 65 MYA Dinosaurs dominate
Cenozoic Era 65 MYA - present mammals dominate

Paleozoic Era

Cambrian Period 590-505 MYA
Explosive evolution of most major phyla
Mass extinction event at Cambrian-Ordovician boundary

Ordovician Period 505-438 MYA

Silurian Period 438-408 MYA
First fossil jawed fishes
Plants colonize the land

Devonian Period 408-360 MYA
Age of fishes

Carboniferous Period 360-280 MYA
Vast forests appear on land
Amphibians appear on land

Permian Period 280-248 MYA
Conifers appear
Mesozoic Era

Triassic Period 248-213 MYA
Extinction of trilobites
Mammals and dinosaurs appear

Jurassic Period 213-144 MYA
Dinosaurs diversify
Archaeopteryx, first fossil bird, appears

Cretaceous Period 144-65 MYA
Angiosperms appear and become the dominate terrestrial plant form
Mass extinction at Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, evidence of
extra-terrestrial impact

Cenozoic Era

Tertiary Period 65 - 2.5 MYA
Paleocene Epoch 65 -55 MYA
Eocene Epoch 55 -38 MYA
Oligocene Epoch 38 -26 MYA
Miocene Epoch 26 - 6 MYA

Earliest primates
Pliocene Epoch 6-2.5 MYA

Origin of hominids
Quaternary Period 2.5 MYA - present
Pleistocene Epoch 2.5 MYA - 10,000 years ago

Origin of Homo
Recent Epoch 10,000 years ago - present<<
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