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In reply to the discussion: "One person's myth is another person's religion" [View all]GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)26. You're right - the theory is not a myth, it's a theory.
Theories are about the scientific aspects of ideas. Myths express the cultural aspects of theories. Theories like the Big Bang or the Primordial Soup become a mythical elements when they are incorporated into our cultural narrative of where we came from and what we're doing here.
Every culture has a creation myth. Ours doesn't have turtles and ravens in it, it has a "Big Bang" and abiogenesis instead. The fact that we have developed scientific evidence for a Big Bang is not surprising - cultures can only come up with support for mythic elements that is consistent with the myth itself. Our myths center around positivism and materialism, so the evidence for our creation myth could only come out of that tradition.
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It shouldn't but the gentleman who wrote the book was explain how the term Mythology was used
Justice wanted
Feb 2012
#6
I think they are. If you look at what we refer to as Mythology it is in fact Old religions that
Justice wanted
Feb 2012
#9
When you use the term "history" you step straight into the realm of mythology.
GliderGuider
Feb 2012
#21
I got in trouble with my mom when I was a kid because I asked when she thought
ZombieHorde
Feb 2012
#27