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What might be the oldest story that we can think of collectively as a civilization? Obviously, that must be the story of the beginning, whether it was ever told or written. If you are thinking of Earth or life, that’s far from the reality. Earth and life are the latest incidents that just happened to happen on a small rocky planet, but the story of the beginning goes back about 14 billion years. For thousands of years, this unequivocal need of humankind, the desire for an accurate account of the beginning, was somehow satisfied by the mythological diets sprinkled with religious faiths – the reason we have many versions of beginning, and none is better than the others. The rational and logical sequences of events that followed the random act of creation are now revealed through the baby steps of scientific quest that began hundreds of years ago. Today, we can narrate that story, even though this is a story that is being written continuously by the forces of nature on the fabric of the cosmos.
The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavors in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind.
— Albert Einstein ( 1931 )
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An immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
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Brahma is the God of creation in Hindu mythology.
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Vedas are the religious texts considered to be the foundation of Hinduism.
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Mathew, S. (2014). Genesis of Genesis. In: Essays on the Frontiers of Modern Astrophysics and Cosmology. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01887-4_1
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