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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
-Karl Popper
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Science Must Begin With Myths, And With

Karl Popper
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices.
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Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. we have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.
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Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. they meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. to try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. in attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. they took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.
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I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. i think i admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than i do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. but i don't much like the practice. i think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become. there have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. so certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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When i first prepared this particular talk... i realized that my usual approach is usually critical. that is, a lot of the things that i do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn't been done. and i realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web. because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. it's kind of a gresham's law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation. bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. you just can't criticize anything.
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