"Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that the Vedic Aryans could have conceived of such a vast span of time over 3,500 years ago that would be similar to the same figure estimated by science today."
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Dr. Subhash Kak, The Eastern Answers to the Mysteries of Life, page 25
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