My nickname Technosoul is a combination of both.
Religion and science should be compatable.
In a double blind test if people who use the suger pills feel better or believe they are getting worse, then that test should prove that quackery works form the perspective of science.
Needless to say that our modern explainations for the earth are better then those they had back in the 1800s (perhaps handed down form generations). We can use modern data to explain the meaning of the "myth" story. Back then they did not have our modern data and so had to explain things in a different way that people back then could comprehend.
I posted the Turtle information because ACause wanted to research that story, so I made it easy for him.
Many of the older myths resulted because of observations made about nature, modern science theory also depends on that same methodology. We have improved upon the art of theory and myth making with our better knowledge, but it is just the evolution of ideas that lead to the new formats for concept construction.
The Big Bang theory is in reality a modern myth created by a shaman like activity.
Here are some posts (and I hope you really read them instead of jumping to your opinion without the data).
http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt...istorymyth.html
Here is another with notations from Joesph Campbell.
http://www.kenaz.com/notes/shaman.htm http://personalwebs.oakland.edu/~dow/cours...33/stouch7.html http://staff.gc.maricopa.edu/~dturkon/L&M-...nit1-Review.htm
On the next weblink they talk about some interesting ideas - somewhat unrelated but concerning mythology and religion.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/997.../01anshen1.html
Well, enough for now.... check it out - in your own words, be as totally informed as possible befor claiming an opinion as the "only right one".
Technosoul