Mr. Paul, You are absolutely right. No Doubt..Your writing make me go back to my reasearch about my religion Hinduism and its explanation about the teory and mystery of uniVerse. I am still sure that no other religion or ancient civilization except try to explain about the universe scientifically. Roman's, Greek. Egytpitians, Maya's, Babolian's, Jewish, Chrisitinatiy, Muslims e.t.c explaination of the universe was according to their ancient beliefs. But Hinduism expanation that was done more than 5000 years was scientifically right which are still consider right unless some new theory about the universe emerges. Hinduism also explains about the BING BANG theory. I would suggest you to read Shree Swasthani and VED Byas one more time. Here are the some experts from my research which I made a presentation in my Religion and Philosophy class. -For instance, Western science’s description of an astronomical universe of vast magnitude that distances must be measured in terms as abstract as light-years is not new to Hinduism whose wise men, millennium ago, came up with the term “kalpa” to signify the inconceivable duration of the period elapsing between the beginning and end of a world system. -Indian cosmologists, the first to estimate the age of the earth at more than 4 billion years. They came closest to modern ideas of atomism, quantum physics, and other current theories. India developed very early, continuing atomist theories of matter. --While the Western civilization was still thinking of 6,000 years old universe,– philosopher in Hindu culture was already envision ages and eons and galaxies as numerous as the sands of the Ganges (famous Holy River for Hindu in India). Each tiny piece of sand considered as one year which means age of the earth as little as 4 billion years. ---Many thousands of years before those great European pioneers, Galileo and Copernicus had to pay heavy prices for their daring theories, the Hindu scientist had declared that, “the sun never sets or rises”. ---The Hindu astronomers in ancient India went even further, giving a physical reason for how the dual star or binary motion might allow the rise and fall of human consciousness to occur. They said that the Sun (with the Earth and other planets) traveled along its set orbital path with its companion start in a supposed magnetic center or "grand center".  ----In 499, the mathematician-astronomer Aryabhata propounded a detailed model of the heliocentric solar system of gravitation, where the planets rotate on their axes causing day & night and follow elliptical orbits around the Sun causing year, and where the planets and the Moon do not have their own light but reflect the light of the Sun --- And Many more.... I NEVER TRIED TELL THAT HINDUISM KNEW EVRYTHING 5000 YEARS AGO THAT WE KNOW TODAY. I WAS ONLY TRY TO TELL THAT OUR HINDUISM HAS TRIED TO EXPLAIN MANY ASPECTS OF UNIVERSE AND PHYCIS 5000 YEARS AGO WHICH HAS BEEN FOUND RIGHT TILL NOW.