Timeline of the Universe

im my opinion believeing in god is as childish as believing in santa.

god didn't create man, man created god. The theory of evolution is right, and it is only revised as science continues to learn, the bible doesn't make sense. Carl Sagan freed my mind, I'm no longer brain-washed

Most likely the universe has always existed in one form or another and did not need a god to create it. We created god in our image to explain the unknown. God has since been used by evil men to control the minds of the people. We will end one day but the universe will continue one way or another forever. Simple. ~ Pieter Uithol

Hay Lughead...if god doesnt exist...why are u still here!

Maybe a white hole was involved. (This is opposite of a black hole. Think about it...)

You people are immature and I am disgusted at the lack of humanity and understanding from all of you. I am a Christian, but I respect anyone who doesn't believe in the Bible. It's their choice, and I don't condemn them to Hell for it. People should learn to accept other the way they are, and stop being so judgmental on either part. Religious nuts back off. Atheist downers shut up.

Isn't it funny how the God believers get all cross, rude and insulting? Lovely people aren't they? So full of 'Gods love' LOL!

Mankind will never be truly civilized until we freely become a post religious society.

To all religious people who think that the bible makes sense, when it comes to this subject, just wow! When something obviously doesn't make sense in the bible, you simply say that that's not what that meant. It said "this", but not really. Good Argument. Measurable and obtainable evidence is key. It has to. By saying that the number 7 meant something holy is kinda like saying red are tomatoes. Seven is a "holy" number because is was they first number of really any importance to be mentioned in the book of genesis. Lets look at it this way. The bible in its self has been changed and re-interpreted thousands of times, not to mention translated. Many key phrases that one might read in the bible actually meant something completely different. I will be honest and say that the bible has some ethical properties to it, I can't argue that (well not completely). In the end religious people say not to take the bible literally. However, by coming up with some round-about-way of saying peter said 1000 years so maybe is was actually 1000 per 7 years is just that. It's not the bibles' fault that its readers are hypocrites. A book was written a long time ago by some people that had some moralistic cultural norms in which they thought would be important forever. It doesn't mention how slavery is bad, but we all know it is. To further help the scientific side of this argument and get back on topic, I will say this simply. Science is all about looking at something, wondering what it is, using current knowledge to figure out what is can be and how it works, then document. Someday that becomes knowledge and the cycle starts all over again. I'm done with this post and will continue to "Stumble Upon" various neat websites.

Science will win every time in this argument, science is the adaptation to progression, religion adapts to science, in terms of order who comes first?

I love this, Science overrules Religion any day no matter what time it ever is in this Universe. Science is the closest thing to Religion we have, that's just my thoughts.

The Bible was never meant to be taken literally. Great stories and great lessons but think for yourself and use common sense.

FIrst there was light, then the sun *our source of light*, and then he made the stars *our sun is a star*. Clearly the story makes absolutely no sense.. from the beginning.

lol reading the comments is actually funnier than the post itself! keep on going people i like that!

Sadly...you've all missed the point. No sense trying to tell you what it is. Unless you realize for yourselves you will not understand and simply argue...like you have been, to no avail.

Shut up and read, listen, study...live life without trying to destroy one another.

You just don't get it do you?

That was a little mean. But c'mon. That was disappointing. Stumbled onto this page and found my hopes to be all high. Something in physics to sort of say what god was doing, which is blasphemy, by the way, then wah-lah. God sits around on his fucking hands for a long as time. Shit you could have at least said he made a girlfriend, a bunch of friends on facebook, had a bunch of sex, made a bunch of mistakes, deleted his facebook account - committing social suicide, and then decided to take it a little easier, and hang back for this next try and the last 2011 years are him taking extra special care not to be a control freak. See what happens when he lets people figure out their own things and decide whether or not they want to be his friends or not.

P.S. Time moves slowly around massive objects. GOD = MASSIVE - World quips by at OUR perceived pace. Seven days to god is seven days to god who is MASSIVE. Let me find my physics book and lets see how big something has to be to take 7 days to be equivalent to our 16.7 billion. P.S.S Dudes, God is really big. Think about it. Their are more possibilities then the bible is false. Sides, how many of you just look for certain things in the bible to justify your ego? You forget so much of it was translated. Dumb = like three different things in our language. Created possibly means more in other languages. Your all miserable in your own personally constructed hell aren't you.

This is stupid. I thought it would be interesting at first glance, but their I go judging a book to carefully by the cover again. See this is why the impressionable people in the world, which I have to say includes all of us, sometimes find calamity within the boundaries between science and religion. Admit it. YOU DONT GET IT. Then you can start to rebuild you ignoranous.

THIS IS GARBAGE FACTSS!! Those who do not see religion as an importance in life, should not diss it, and leave it alone. This idiot wrote about GOD ALMIGHTY, not knowing anything! Mann doesn't even know about the creation of everything! Sorry for being rude but anyoone who does this kind of crap sshould do it alone in their bedroom or something!

religion is a waste, all the religious nuts call us people who use logic, heretics, and that is there only excuse. They know only how to say we commit sins and try to take our money. Religion will soon be faded so I'm not worried. I don't want to give "god" credit for my achievements. My younger brother died when he was 8, where was god? he didn't commit sins... its just life, physics, science. Im in disbelief people really waste there time with stories that some person that we don't know who, wrote a book (aka the bible). He probably sat down with his friends, smoked some ancient drugs and whipped up a story. Religion is responsible for most all wars and hatred. Please lets all put an end to this idiotic acts of god and enlightenment!

According to science matter creates itself from nothing and life creates itself with the ability to reproduce? Who believes in fairy tales??? So you believe you're reading this is simply an accident in spite of the absurdly astronomical odds and science contradicting itself.

Religatard! That is perfect. Thank you for making my day

we know nothing - what was god doing before creating the universe? having lunch with his classmates before they started their science lab where they create a universe. we are a species stuck on our planet in a universe none of us can grasp the size of, yet we act like we know the answers...have some humility and be nice to one another.

The bible is about teachings, stories with morals. Not everything should be taken literally, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, moses walked the desert for 40 days and 40 nights. Perhaps this is just a saying translated from another language which simply means "a long time". Just because some fool scientist came along and did some math and comes up with 6,000 years doesn't make the teachings wrong. I think everyone is missing the bus on this one.

Fantastic. Another mockery of the Bible by an uneducated troll. I think we should all praise the author's lack of sensitivity along with the author's assumption that they are somehow more knowledgeable about what the Bible really says and means than the ones that actually study the Bible in context and search for the truth in the meaning. Congratulations, author. You are truly original.

I think it's so funny that everyone speaks so surely of themselves while arguing about religion. The reality is, is that NOBODY REALLY KNOWS THE TRUTH AS TO HOW WE CAME TO BE HERE. So stop insulting other people's beliefs, and STOP trying to convince the other side that your theory is the correct one. NEITHER CAN BE PROVEN. All anyone does by arguing about it is make themselves look callous. Just BE HAPPY and be able to accept the fact that YOU MIGHT BE WRONG. Live life instead of spending the little time you do have on Earth trying to figure out how and why you are here in first place. What a waste that is.

I wish people would take a college astronomy class before they begin commenting.

I wish people could believe in the fact that there are Christians that are hard core scientists. But then I guess that makes them idiots...

Haters gonna hate. If you have religion, good for you. What's so bad about believing in something? If you're an atheist, I'm glad you're comfortable with everything just ending. Just because you can't have faith in something you can't see, doesn't mean others are wrong for doing it. My theory is, what are you losing for having religion? If you end up being wrong in the end, you just die. Nothing else. But, if you spend you're whole life not believing, and it ends up being true... Yep. Besides, what does Christianity or anything hinder you from? Doing drugs, partying, drinking, having sex with everyone.. Oh, my. You're SO miss out on freakin' everything, don't you? Ha. Think about it. Oh, and it also requires a bit of commitment. Which, we also know, that the human race is notorious for sucking in that department. Goodbye.

Now do Islam! Or Hinduism! Or Buddhism! Oh, you don't know shit about religion and aren't sensitive to the fact that there are other more philosophical reasons why someone might choose to believe in a deity than try to take out the fact that some nut attempted to force a religion down your throat by trying to force your own point of view down someone else's? I see. I suppose I'll just go to the trillions of other sites which attempt to do the exact same thing as this one. Thanks!

it's all relative Einstein calculated that the universe was created in 6 days if you look at it from the perspective of the universe as a whole but it is still 15 billions years from earth's perspective. This is a common case of someone ignorant to both science and the Bible taking a side in an argument that doesn't exist. If you want to have a better understanding of the relationship between the two read some of the stuff Einstein wrote and look up the book The Science of God

What was universe like before everything started? Something came out absolutely nothing? How big is the Universe itself?

This is an epic troll. congratz to the creator of this! lol..im loving it.

Wow, we get it...you hate God

Logic fail, you can't make the theory on the right subject to the time frame of the theory on the left. An infinite being would not experience time in the same way that we do. By definition an Omnipotent is not subject to time constraints or he would not be infinite. Just saying. I know this is mostly a joke, but it falls flat when the basic logic is not there.

I think the majority of people accept God because it provides them the security blanket of knowing that there is a purpose to life. Religion is such a funny thing. It seems as though people generally think logically about things throughout their daily endeavors, but once the topic of religion comes up the most random unreasonable causes for the creation of our universe come pouring out. I'm an agnostic individual, so I cannot say that a God doesn't exist, because I don't know. No one does. I take the bible as a book full of fables meant to provide a moral outline for life rather than one meant to be taken literally. It will be interesting to see how many still claim to be religious 50 years from now.

Im still looking in the bible where it says he created the earth in 6 (24 hour) days. Hmph. Maybe it wasnt 24 hour days. Maybe they were thousands of years long. Since in 2 Peter 3:8 it says, "A day with God is like a thousand years". Since the sun wasn't created till the 4th day, how can you put a earthly time limit on it. Something to think about.

If we are to assume God is omnipotent, then what is to say God did not create an old Universe.

I don't see why people have to pick one or the other. Maybe God just set it all in motion billions, or trillions, of years ago. We can only see so far into the depths of space so who knows how much more is out there. The Bible can be taken in different ways, it was written by man and man is fallible. But man also studies the universe. There was a time when Gorillas, Pandas, and Tigers were thought of in the same way we think of Unicorns today. I don't think it's fair to call anyone who believes in a God a crackpot just because you don't agree because you don't have hard evidence. I know that some religions and people are extreme, but many of us believe everyone has the right to think what they want and as long as you're a decent person it doesn't matter. Plus, if I die and there is no God, my belief in him during my life isn't going to hurt me and my belief in science doesn't hurt my faith in God because my understanding of him differs from people like the YEC.

Also just wanted to share this with you; someone I know told me that she, "believes in dinosaurs, just not that they existed as long ago as scientists say they do." Simply because she doesn't understand how they can date the bones. People like that make me sad for humanity.

My version goes a little differently, I can wait till they put the Webb telescope up there and they find paradoxes of time... such as ancient galaxies and stars at the edge of the universe which will revise the age of the universe once more. There is a Big difference between God and peoples conception of God.

Yeah. Just think how advances we'ed be if God had got off his butt a billion years ago.lol.

i was most interested by the fact about the pixel height at the end