St Giordano Bruno
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If you look up Hindu Cosmology you will find the answer but in a nutshell. Most Hindu Creationists believe man has been living on earth for over 2 billion years. Remember Hinduism deals with cycles, Cremo believes the "day of Brahma" lasts 4.32 billion years. He also believes that the "current day of Brahma" began two billion years ago. There is an infinite number of deaths and rebirths in hinduism.
Bramha's entire life equals 100 Brahma years which is 311 trillion, 40 billion years in human years. Once Bramha dies there is an equal period of unmanifestation for 311 trillion, 40 billion years, until the next Bramha is created.
Some scientists look on 311 trillion years as somewhat of an overkill because the observed age of the universe is said to be estimated as a far more modest 13.7 billion years. But then again they qualify that as being just the observed age, not the actual age. The actual age would probably be much older and would even make the life of Brahma look pretty short. The true age is actually masked out by our anthropic bias towards spacio-temporal districts friendly to us observers
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and here for the anthropic principle.
BTW I happen to a proponent of the weak anthropic principle because the strong one implies intelligent design.