If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
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Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.
If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
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