Personal Background
The purpose of this wiki site is to share my personal work and experiences over the last 30 years. In 1980, while I was attending the College of Engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the direction and purpose of my life forever changed.
While at the university, the focus for my future line of study was redirected away from electrical engineering into a chronological understanding and study of the rise and fall of empires; specifically tracing the Judeo/Christian culture and ideology predating the emergence of Abraham — the historical figure who fathered the Arab and Hebrew nations.
At that time I was made aware that something was seriously wrong with the direction the world was heading in at every level of society. When my eyes were opened to a different reality than the one I was living in I withdrew from the university and returned to the computer company I previously worked for.
Prior to attending Rutgers, I worked for the Perkin-Elmer data systems division located near the Jersey shore. Realizing that I needed a degree, I returned to school to complete my electrical engineering studies. However, when my convictions as to what direction I was to pursue for my life changed, I withdrew from school and accepted a position in the corporate training center in the city of Neptune.
After transferring to the customer service department, and working as a Senior Hardware Support Engineer, I decided to learn more about the IBM 360/370 machine code. Since I was learning about history from a chronological view point at that time anyway, I decided to practice the assembly language programming using a real world example; which resulted in writing an application to printout a chronological time-line.
The charts presented in this website have their humble beginnings in the 75 foot chart that my assembly language program generated which covered 6,000 years of earth’s history. As time and technology progressed, I converted the basic 7,000 Year Earth’s History Model concept to the Microsoft Word format in order to be more manageable and electronically email-able.
Structure and Purpose of Charts
The 7,000 Year Earth’s History Model format was chosen in order to demonstrate time/distance relationships. The 1/8th inch scale used and combined to represent 7,000 years when compressed into a 1/8th inch length represents one graphical period that I use to represent time back 20 billion years to the “Big Bang.” See the Universe.pdf document. [ Note: Historical estimates range between 11 to 20 Billion years to origin of Universe and the “Big Bang.”]
Fig. 1 – Geologic Periods
In the Precambrian Era (the longest time period shown in Fig. 1), no life forms are thought to exist. In the Cambrian Period (the first portion of the Paleozoic Era shown in blue above), consider the following quote from “Puncturing Punctuationism” in The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins:
“…the Cambrian strata of rocks…are the oldest ones in which we find most of the major invertebrate groups. And we find many of them already in an advanced state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history.” –Richard Dawkins
“In the beginning Elohim (God) created the Heavens and earth . . .”
“And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
“And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
” And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
“And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.” –Genesis 1:1, 20-23
Comparing the quotes above begs the question, why did the first forms of life suddenly appear literally out of nowhere? Can either Creation or Evolution be proven? NO!
If neither Creation nor Evolution can be proven, we need to have FAITH in one or the other. Either we exit as a result of everything we see coming from nothing, or there is an intelligent designer behind all that we see and can observe. If evolution is statistically impossible, but people insist on believing in it, even though it cannot be proven or demonstrated in the laboratory, then evolution becomes a religion not science. It then exists as a system of beliefs side by side with every other religion. The question then becomes, which “religion” is correct or closest to the truth of the origin of our existence? TheSealing website will demonstrate that it is not a particular “religion” that is correct , but a belief system that is correct which can be observed and tested. The assumption is that everything in the universe we see in our dimension did not come from nonexistent matter, and that every orderly functional design requires a designer.
Figure 2 below represents 7,000 years of earth’s history and is one grid mark in my graphical representation of 560,000 years per page leading back to the “Big Bang.” This is the key to the format of the charts in this website. See: Chart Gallery thumbnails
1 division = 7000 years
1 page = 80 divisions or 560,000 years
35,714 pages = # pages plotted to Big Bang (20 billion yrs. / 560,000 yrs./pg.)
Fig. 2 – 560,000 Year Legal Size Scale
Fig. 3 – Basic 7,000 Year Timeline
7,000 Year Earth’s History Model vs. Big Bang Theory
According to the evolutionary model of origins, preceding this page with 35,714 pages, placed end-to-end, will represent the relationship between time and distance back to the “big bang” point of origin of the universe. It will take 8,036 pages to go back in time to the origin of the earth (4.5 billion yrs.); 6,071 pages (3.4 billion yrs.) to first one-celled organisms; 804 pages (450 million yrs.) to marine life and fish; 625 pages (350 million yrs.) to amphibians; 447 pages (250 million yrs.) to reptiles and coal-forming swamps; 268 pages (150 million yrs.) to birds and mammals; 116 pages (65 million yrs.) to horses and grasses; 6 pages (3 million yrs.) to man.
By having 7,000 years represented by 1/8th of an inch, I can lay 35,740 printed legal size pages end-to-end, which will extend 1.2 miles, and represent time back to the event of what is commonly referred to in evolutionary theory as the “Big Bang.” This is the point in time when evolutionary scientists believe the Universe, that our solar system is part of, began from the explosion of all matter compressed into an object the size of the period at the end of this sentence. “.”
Consider the “faith” that is required to believe that everything we see in the universe came from nothing without a Creator. What precedent exists where we can prove in science that anything came from nothing? How long did it take for a computer to evolve without a designer?
If the Godless evolutionary theory is wrong, what is our only option?
This point alone is the reason for considering a 7,000 year Earth’s History Model.
If there is a God, who is he? If he did create our planet exactly where he did in our solar system, why did he do it? What plan did he have? What purpose does he have for us? Did he tell us who he is and what he expects from us? Did he leave a record of what he did and how he expects us to live and interact with out neighbor? What are we to expect in the future?
These questions will be addressed in TheSealing website.
See: Universe.pdf
Creations Tiny Mystery by Robert Gentry