18 Aug '11 15:20>
Originally posted by sonhouseThe earth of today was not the same earth of a billion years ago.
Your fairy tale of men being here for billions of years may have fooled the savages 3000 years ago and those words were recorded so we can read them now, those words do not cut the mustard in light of 21st century science and technology.
3000 years ago, 2000 years ago, 1000 years ago, 50 years ago even, there was not the slightest hint there was anything ...[text shortened]... t humans would have eaten a billion years ago when there was nothing on earth but bacteria.
I have said repeatedly that the universe goes through partial annihilations which upsets all possibilities of observing a time line that goes in straight line.......which science needs to be able to understand anything at all.
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Time reference
Kalpa (a day of Brahma) is consists of thousand mahayugas, fourteen manvantaras, or 4,320,000,000 years.
The beginning of this kalpa was 2.3 billion years ago (453 mahayugas back).
Brahma's life (vikalpa) is 311,040,000,000,000 years long. "Our" Brahma is fifty years old.
"Outside of the three planetary systems [Svarga, Martya and Patala], the four yugas multiplied by one thousand comprise one day on the planet of Brahma. A similar period comprises a night of Brahma, in which the creator of the universe goes to sleep."
(SB 3.11.22)
"After the end of Brahma's night, the creation of the three worlds begins again in the daytime of Brahma, and they continue to exist through the life durations of fourteen consecutive Manus, or fathers of mankind."
(SB 3.11.23)
You can know understand that your perception of the time line is not fluid and therefore you cannot understand the fact that humans existed way back.