[Ichneumon]

The power of myth.

To save time, I direct you to my replies in posts #30, #35, #53, and #56, they're all entirely appropriate to your post as well.

If you guys keep this up at this rate, I'll have to compose a form letter or something.

[aruanan]

If you guys keep this up at this rate, I'll have to compose a form letter or something.

As a Ph.D. biologist (from the better of the two schools mentioned in this article), what I said, I said very seriously. The problem is that there are too many people who have no clue about the role of myth and think of it as something merely antithetical to or as substitute for fact or, more narrowly, for scientific data. This is more clearly seen in the political liberal who confuses his conclusions about reality with reality itself. He's just a realist, he thinks. The same is true for many of the naturalist persuasion who believe that what they see is simply the real world reflecting brightly, and accurately, off the shiny surface of their reason. Because of this, both blind themselves to the way myth structures their own world view and the way that world view selects and interprets data.