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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."
excerpt from Why People Believe Weird
Things (p. 130) |
The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith
Deceptions and Myths of the Bible by Lloyd Graham
Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences by Susan Blackmore
Edge of Tomorrow: An Arctic Year by Sam Wright
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor
First Peoples, First Contacts: Native Peoples of North America by J.C.H. King
Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs by Adrienne Mayor
Greek Myths for Young Children by Marcia Williams
The Greeks and Their Gods by W. K. C. Guthrie
Half Human, Half Animal: Tales of Werewolves and Related Creatures by Jamie Hall
Holy Bible
In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis by Karen Armstrong
Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity by Hyam MacCoby
Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible by Robin Fox
Venus Revealed by David Harry Grinspoon
Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of the Christian Myth by Burton Mack