John C. Walton

Compact Time is an unconventional book taking a journey of discovery into the realm of time and timing methods. It highlights the fallacies of methods currently applied to Earth history and then draws attention to the radiocarbon dating technique. Radiocarbon decays away in only thousands of years. A recent remarkable finding is that undecayed, radiocarbon permeates the whole geologic column; it’s even in fossil dinosaur bones. Modern earth science recognizes many catastrophic events as crucial in the building of the geologic column. On condensing the timescale to that of radiocarbon, all these catastrophes are seen to be linked in a geologic chain reaction dubbed the ‘giga-catastrophe.’ This is linked to the widespread accounts of a global flood. The result is a compact chronology for earth history lasting only thousands of years. Numerous historical, geological and paleontological lines of evidence supporting this are described. The implications for understanding human origins and human history are unfolded. The consequences of Compact Time for belief systems including naturalism, theistic evolution and conservative Christianity are brought to light.