Amateur scientists vs. cranks

[chgoliz]

@HannesAlfven

What few people seem to realize is that before religion, there was a storytelling epoch dominated by the mythological archetypes. [/quote]

Mythology is simply religion with no living adherents. Atheists would say we are currently living in a “storytelling epoch dominated by mythological archetypes”…just that now it’s an Abrahamic god mythology instead of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, etc.

[quote=“HannesAlfven, post:28, topic:1874”]And most of the stories told by the cultures of the world exhibit enigmatic similarities at a time when it is not thought that people were traversing the oceans on ships.

Except they were. The genetic proof is everywhere, now that we’re able to read it.

Despite what I’ve said above, I don’t mean to discount the idea that certain natural catastrophes were large enough that groups in different areas all came up with similar stories to try to explain what happened because in fact they had all experienced the same thing.