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  "thread": {
    "id": 3851,
    "subject": "Myth and Science",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2003-02-14T21:07:59+00:00",
    "last": "2003-02-14T21:07:59+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0302-2939@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "crushtv at hotpop.com"
      },
      "date": "2003-02-14T21:07:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Myth and Science",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "Nutria proffered:"
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          "text": "Conventional SF works in terms of theories about the\nuniverse that are just that: theories. Better: myths."
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          "text": "Blattid deferred:\nH'mmm. I don't know if I'd go so far as to call the theories\nof modern science \"myths.\"\n\nCrush butts in:\nOne definition of \"myth\" certainly could equate the \"old stories\" with\nscientific theory; that is, \"what might have happed based on what we know.\"\n\nYou probably remember that this is the definition C.S. Lewis utilized (and\nhe was no Fundamentalist).  Consider that the interests of the old stories,\nmodern religion, and the sort of science that usually provokes general\ninterest are the same:\nWhere did we come from? (Prometheus, Genesis, and paleontology)\nWhat is going on? (The Fates, the Gospels, Relativity)\nWhere are we going? (Ragnarok, Revelation, cosmology)\n\nThe reason is that they are born from the same visceral urges. The old\nstories and religion (especially true for Judaism and Christianity) even\nhave an advantage in these inquiries that science does not. That is, all\nthree presume that the human point-of-view is valid and objectively true,\nbut only the first two can begin to justify why.\n\nFinally, this definition explains the ubiquitous interest of SF writers\n(like Wolfe) in ancient mythology.\n\n--- Crush"
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