Lesson 1 · Hall One · Early Earth
When Did It All Begin?
Textbooks say five billion years. Genesis counts about six thousand. Dennis Petersen’s classic seminar walks through thirteen natural “clocks” that are still ticking today, and asks what each one says about the age of the Earth. With the original 2002 narration, restored.
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Course map
Four halls, one hundred and seven mysteries
The course follows the four sections of the book. Every topic below is a two-page spread in Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation; each becomes a lesson like the one above. Lesson 1 is live, and the four exhibits sampled on the original 2002 CD-ROM are queued next.
About this course
A 2002 CD-ROM, rebuilt for the phone in your pocket
In 2002 Creation Resource Foundation released Unlocking the Mysteries of Creation, a 240-page full-color "explorer's guide," together with a preview CD-ROM: a virtual museum tour and a narrated slide show built in PowerPoint. The show still plays, but only on a computer with PowerPoint, one click at a time, from a disc, with its narration scattered across 50 sound files.
This edition keeps the seminar’s argument, its order, its original photographs and Stephen Lawler’s original narration, and moves it to a format modern audiences actually use: a single link that opens on any phone, tablet, laptop or classroom screen. Watch mode narrates and advances on its own, like a video. As on the 2002 disc, a Clock index of picture tiles jumps straight to any clock, and every card carries the disc’s Restart, Index and Exit buttons. Explore mode lets a student swipe at their own pace and open the book’s fuller text behind any card.
Homeschool families and Christian schools can share the link, put it on a class page, or play it on a projector. No installation, no disc, no PowerPoint.
"Every page of this large-format, hard-back book is filled with color and pictures. It's one of those few books that immediately rivets the reader's attention."Ian Taylor, author of In the Minds of Men, on the 2002 edition
