I would give it both math and science, it comes from two of the first math peoples, Sumarian and Mayan. They were related, and the math is the same. Both say that the age ends, the Fifth Sun. Both date it from the end of the Forth Sun, 26,000 years ago. The Science end is we do get hit with meteors in waves, about 26,000 years, and it makes a mess of things.
Both say a large planet comes through, Mayan called it a Feathered Serpent, Sumarians Marduk. They describe a long period comet, and a big one. For all of our tech, we will not see it till it passes the gas giants and lights up.
Looking back, there are 1.5 Kilometer holes in the ground spaced about 26,000 years apart. Barriger in Arizona, and Lonar in India, are 50,000 years old, and still look fresh. The next wave hit and an ice age followed. Most will hit the ocean, everyone has flood stories.
Five Suns is the age of the modern species of humans, just like us, and would have noticed such things.
The Mayans based time on the 52 year Sun Venus cycle, a hundred of those is a Long Count, 5,200 years, five of those an age, a Sun, 26,000 years.
Each 52 year cycle starts on the Winter Soltice, with the day and month One Reed,
Mayan and Sumarian said the same, it is the day the god comes.
So go Google the holes in the ground, their dates, and you can try denying that.