Prologue - Before there was man

It is amazing to read what is thought of about the beginning of time. How it the earth started out as a spec of matter/gas. Then BAM... there is life in just seconds.. milli seconds? That is unheard of. I am still amazed as to how people come up with this conclusion and trying to wrap my head around such a complex theory of where we began. From science to religions, how do we come up with such theories? Looking at the history of the universe and trying to make a connection with religion seems to be a far reach to link. Based on what I have read, hinduism is the oldest religion about 5,000 years old and it has no true record of beginning or founder.. one could say that hinduism is a mystical/cosmic type religion. But where does it tie with the cosmic calendar and the beginning of humans? Based on the cosmic calendar, First humanlike creatures 2.7 million years ago, 1st agriculture 12,000 years ago, birth of Buddha/Greek civilization 2500 years ago, birth of Jesus 2000 years ago and then the Aztec and Inca empires 500 years ago.. there is no mention of hinduism on the cosmic calendar. I find that quite interesting...another thing that caught my eye was the differences between the cosmic calendar in years versus days. For instances, when dinosaurs were in existence either it was ~165 million years ago or 5 days in cosmic terms.

Again, it takes a lot for me to wrap my head around this. Even with a science degree I still question how things are decided and determined based on what.. based on experience, based on previous knowledge.. who wrote this stuff?

Then there was man... the defined era of humans - Paleolithic, Agricultural and Modern (Industrial). The best part is that the majority of our time on earth it is said it was spent mostly in the Paleolithic era.. crazy. modern era has NOTHING on paleolithic. --- I would have to say, it seemed like the good times.. because later.. there became man who decided to be more greedy and Europe appearing to be on the quest of world domination but yet China seemed to be untouched.