My agenda is to demonstrate that it is possible to tell the entire story of the universe in a way that does not conflict with the Bible, which I believe to be the inerrant Word of Almighty God in it’s original languages. Certainly other ways than mine exist, but at least it is possible to tell the story without falsifying history or breaking any scientific laws or denying the Bible. That does involve some rather dramatic changes from the evolutionist’s “uniformitarian” mindset, as the ancient world simply cannot have had all the same parameters we see around us and still match the Bible. A good example is Noah’s Flood - a uniformitarian simply cannot allow the Flood to cover the entire earth above all the mountains as the Bible says.

In line with my agenda, I at first tried to have my chronology line up with that of Archbishop James Ussher. He wrote the Annals of the World back in the 1650’s. It is a very scholarly work, with a huge body of ancient historical references and source material behind it. His agenda was the same as mine. Professor Hull drew out his timeline, which I also used. But more recent archaeological data (especially on Egypt’s Pharaohs) has made me push my timeline back 1102 years from theirs.

Archbishop Ussher was laughed at, ridiculed, for saying that the creation was in 4004 BC. Why? He did the best he could with the data he had, and it was really very good. I’ve got more data, thus a longer timeline, but I can only pray I will be as faithful as he to line it up so it fits the Bible story. I’m sure people will laugh at me, too, when more data yet is found. I suspect if all the facts were known from the Creation, we would be able to fill up a timeline back to about 10,000 BC.

What about those with a different agenda? Many deny the authority of the Bible, and start with “science” as their primary source of truth. They may believe in God, but they relegate Him to a back-room realm of “religion” and “spirit” where nothing can be known for sure, at least in this physical realm of “facts.” So their agenda, while it may not be to overtly disprove God, at the very least is only to line up their chronology with all the other “known facts” out there. The problem with this approach is, nearly all of what we “know” is either very limited or flat wrong.

Archaeologists have an “inside joke.” Archaeologist Gordon Franz said it best in 1998, “Absolute truth in archaeology lasts about 20 years.” So don’t you dare go back into books or essays more than 20 years old, or you might discover that all their ages and dates have changed. Of course the old information was flawed because they didn’t know what we now know. And nobody realizes that what we now “know” will be obsolete in another 20 years. So the only true “fact” is, that all our “accepted” archaeological dates have changed and are likely to keep changing.

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