Editing Dating creation (section)

==Hinduism==
{{See also|Hindu cosmology|Hindu units of time|Yuga cycle}}
The ''[[Rig Veda]]'' questions the origin of the cosmos in the [[Nasadiya Sukta]] (the 129th hymn of Rigveda [[Mandala 10|10th mandala]]):
{{quote|1=Neither being (sat) nor non-being was as yet. What was concealed? And where? And in whose protection?…Who really knows? Who can declare it? Whence was it born, and whence came this creation? The [[Deva (Hinduism)|devas]] were born later than this world's creation, so who knows from where it came into existence? None can know from where creation has arisen, and whether he has or has not produced it. He who surveys it in the highest heavens, he alone knows-or perhaps does not know." (Rig Veda 10. 129)<ref>"Upanishads: Gateways of Knowledge", p. 10, by M. P. Pandit, publisher = Lotus Press</ref>}}

[[Dick Teresi]] in his book ''Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science'', reviewing [[Vedas]] writes that:
{{quote|Twenty-four centuries before Isaac Newton, the Hindu Rig-Veda asserted that gravitation held the universe together. The Sanskrit speaking Aryans subscribed to the idea of a spherical earth in an era when the Greeks believed in a flat one. The Indians before the fifth century BCE calculated the age of the earth as 4.3 billion years; scientists in 19th century England were convinced it was 100 million years.<ref>{{cite book|title=Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--from the Baby|author=Dick Teresi|author-link=Dick Teresi|date=11 May 2010|pages=7–8|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781439128602}}</ref>}}

[[Carl Sagan]] and [[Fritjof Capra]] have pointed out similarities between the latest scientific understanding of the age of the universe and the Hindu concept of a "[[Day of Brahma|day]] and [[night of Brahma]]", which is much closer to the current known age of the universe than other creation views. The days and nights of [[Brahma]] posit a view of the universe that is divinely created, and is not strictly evolutionary, but an ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth of the universe. According to Sagan:
{{quote|The Hindu religion is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.<ref>{{cite book | last =Sagan | first =Carl | author-link =Carl Sagan | title =[[Cosmos (Sagan book)|Cosmos]] | publisher =Ballantine Books | year =1985 | isbn =978-0-345-33135-9 }} p. 258.</ref>}}

Also, as per Hinduism, [[Kaliyuga]], the last part of the current cycle ([[yuga cycle]]) of time traditionally starts in [[3102 BC]].