Plato Wove Historical Fact Into Literary Myth.

Perceiving The World As Well Designed And Thus The Product Of A Designer, And Even Seeing Divine Providence In The Daily Affairs Of Life, May Be The Product Of A Brain Adapted To Finding Patterns In Nature. (38)

The Recent Medical Controversy Over Whether Vaccinations Cause Autism Reveals A Habit Of Human Cognition — Thinking Anecdotally Comes Naturally, Whereas Thinking Scientifically Does Not.

Myths, Whether In Written Or Visual Form, Serve A Vital Role Of Asking Unanswerable Questions And Providing Unquestionable Answers. Most Of Us, Most Of The Time, Have A Low Tolerance For Ambiguity And Uncertainty. We Want To Reduce The Cognitive Dissonance Of Not Knowing By Filling The Gaps With Answers. Traditionally, Religious Myths Have Served That Role, But Today — The Age Of Science — Science Fiction Is Our Mythology.

If Spirituality Is The Sense Of Awe And Humility In The Face Of The Creation, What Could Be More Awesome And Humbling Than The Deep Space Discovered By Hubble And The Cosmologists, And The Deep Time Discovered By Darwin And The Evolutionists.

But There Is Only One Surefire Method Of Proper Pattern Recognition, And That Is Science.