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- What are they?
- Is it just a story?
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2
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- Definition: word or speech
- In the beginning was the Word…
- Tale or story
- Rumor
- A thing thought
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- Stories of origin
- Pre-scientific attempts to explain the natural world
- Not the same as scientific fact; but not a fairytale either
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- Myth is true; figuratively
- Philosophical teaching
- Explain something that scientific knowledge can’t yet explain
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