How Did We Get Here? (existentially)

A little background and key dates on the journey to ‘now’ and how we all got here, from Earth, to mankind, to religion/culture, to the continents… and finally to the two most important little creatures in my own life.

 

14 billion years ago:  Big bang

4.6 billion years ago:  Earth’s creation

3.5 billion years ago: Life forms

200,000 years ago:  Homo-Sapiens arrive at the party

2,000 years ago:  Birth of Christ

7/8/04: Brayden Gregory Stroh is born

3/14/06: Brooke Sabal Stroh drops

7/25/15:  Stroh family embarks on an exploration of our world

 

Here are some great videos explaining how we got to this point:

Planet Earth formation:  

Tectonics, and the formation of our current seven continents: 

Human evolution:  

Spread of the five major world religions:  

 

And to put things into a depressing perspective showing our species irrelevance, here’s a 24-hour clock showing progress of life on Earth (thanks Cindy and Ariel, I think?):