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Certainly observations of the sky have been a key component of both science and religion throughout recorded history. About 5,000 years ago Egyptians believed a sacred boat carried the Sun God Ra from the eastern horizon across the heavenly ocean to the western horizon.2.16 Sometime between 4,200 B.C.2.17 and 2,800 B.C.2.18 Egypt had established the first solar calendar based on a 365-day year. The scientist inside the soul of all men in all cultures has always sought to understand the source of everything, starting with how everything was created. Quantifying the number of days in a year was a significant milestone in developing a scientific understanding of the creation.

Taking historical views of time and eternity one step farther, it is interesting to compare the creation dates as recorded by various groups and cultures:
  • Hindu’s teach the universe undergoes endless cycles of creation. Each iteration of the universe lasts 1 lifespan of Brahma, which amounts to 331 trillion years. The age of the current iteration of the universe is 155 trillion (1.55*1014) years (or 51 years of Brahma);2.19
  • The Big Bang Theory sets Creation at 13.7 +/- 0.2 Billion (1.37*109) +/- 2.0*107 Years BCE (Before Current Era);2.20
  • The Byzantine Empire set creation as occurring on September 1st 5509 B.C.;2.21
  • Traditional Catholics date creation to 5199 B.C.;2.22
  • The ancient Egyptian calendar started in 4,236 B.C.;2.23
  • In 1654 James Ussher, Bishop of Armagh in Ireland, identified creation as occurring on Monday,October 23, 4004 B.C.;2.24
  • The first date in the Jewish calendar is 3,372 B.C.;2.25 and
  • The first date in the Mayan calendar is August 11th or 13th of 3,114 B.C.;2.26
Ancient cultures did understand annual cycles, and this came from watching the stars and thus coming to an appreciation of eternity and time. For instance, the summer (June 21st) and winter (December 21st) solstice occur roughly along the axis of the Stonehenge, which was built in southern England between 3,100 and 2,000 B.C.2.27 Similar solstice alignments are found on the Lakota stone wheel, and stone medicine wheels like the one in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming which was probably built around 1,760 A.D.2.28 In each of these cases the individual cultures were working with detailed information, like when the sun rose and set, or what the genealogy dates in the Bible add up to. They were predicting eternal patterns and events. These processes continue forever, especially relative to the lifetime of a man, and so they relate to eternity.

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