Gods have many faces.
History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.
Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.
Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that the Vedic Aryans could have conceived of such a vast span of time over 3,500 years ago that would be similar to the same figure estimated by science today.