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created. The rains due to this monsoons can only be compared with those at the time of deluge This condition also did not last for a long time. Gradually when the temperature of the earth became normal plants started to grow on the earth After the plants came the reptiles. Gradually the evolution of life continued and when the advanced type of monkeys called Chimpanzee had become habituated to sit on the ground instead of on the trees, a new creature called man was born in their generation
Nor has the science kept mum about the future. It foretells that gradually, the speed of rotation is decreasing At present the speed is one rotation in 24 hours; but in the past, it had the speed of one rotation in 3 or 4 hours At that time, the day and night each consisted of 2 hours In future the speed will decrease to one rotation in 1400 hours, 1e the day and the night each will be of 700 hours Further on, the spced will become less than even this Together with the speed, the temperature will also go on decreasing And rs, in the beginning on account of tremendous high temperature there was no life possible on the carth, later on due to tremendous cold every creature will be frozen to death. It will even happen that the whole earth completely destroyed forming into atoris, may vanish into Nothing.
The above mentioned speculations about the creation and destruction of the earth, are some of the
