We live in the mystery of God who gives life. (repeat after each date)
13.7 billion years ago:
THE FIREBALL All the energy that exists flares forth in a vast unfurling of space, a trillion-degree blast so powerful the universe is still expanding. Slowly the fireball expands and cools until hydrogen and helium bond.
13.7-10 billion years ago:
GALAXIES Gravity pulls matter together slightly faster than the universe expands, constellating the universe into trillions of separate clouds of hydrogen and helium—the galaxies. Big ones form by swallowing little ones.
SUPERNOVAS The clouds of hydrogen and helium fracture into self-imploding centers—the primal stars.
5 billion years ago:
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
4 billion years ago:
BACTERIA
2 billion years ago:
CELLS WITH NUCLEI
30 million years ago:
FIRST APES
2.6 million years ago:
FIRST HUMANS HOMO HABILIS
1.5 million years ago:
HUNTERS HOMO ERECTUS
200,000 years ago:
ARCHAIC HOMO SAPIENS
40,000 years ago:
MODERN HOMO SAPIENS
2 thousand years ago:
JESUS IS BORN IN BETHLEHEM