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                  Misconceptions and Facts - Dr.  Joe Mayer

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This is the story of how the Earth came to be as determined by the best possible scientific research. It can not be specified as absolute fact as there are many different theories about the story of creation. But, according to our scientists and researchers, This is most probably how the world we know today, came to be .....

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15 000 000 000 BC

The PLANCK, UNIFICATION, INFLATIONARY, ELECTROWEAK,QUARK,HADRON,LEPTON,PHOTON EPOCHS 

THE BIG BANG

(The beginning of time  and the emergence of matter)

 

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---------------------------- THE PRECAMBRAN ERA ----------------------------

5 500 000 000 BC

THE CREATION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

(The formation of the planets and the sun)

 

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--------------------------------- THE HADEAN ERA ---------------------------------

4 500 000 000 

THE BIG WHACK

(The creation of the moon)

 

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-------------------------------THE PALEOZOIC ERA-------------------------------

3 700 000 000 - 310 000 000 BC 

The  CAMBRIAN, ORDOVICIAN, SILURIAN, DEVONIAN PERIODS

(The emergence of life)

 

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------------------------- THE  PHANEROZOIC ERA ----------------------------

310 000 000 - 65 000 000 BC

THE CARBONIFEROUS,  PERMIAN, TRIASSIC, JURASSIC, CRETACEOUS PERIODS

(The emergence of the first plants and, dinosaurs, birds and mammals) 

 

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------------------------------ THE CENOZOIC ERA ------------------------------

65 000 000 - 10 000 BC

THE TERTIARY, QUATERNARY, NEOLITHIC & PLEISTOCENE PERIODS

(The emergence of mammalian bipedalism up to modern man)

 

note: The dates specified above are not the starting and ending dates of the era's but the dates of major events within those era's

 

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