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	Mythology
		Mythology figures prominently in most religions, and most mythology is tied to at least one religion.
		Stories from scripture are usually not referred to as mythology except in a pejorative sense, but one can speak of a Jewish mythology, a Christian mythology, or an Islamic mythology, in which one describes the mythic elements within these faiths without speaking to the veracity of the faith's tenets or claims about its history.
		Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends, scientific mythology, and many other ways.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/my/mythology.html (830 words)

	maatmythology
		Mythology was originally a cosmological philosophy embodied in symbolic language and given in a pure form by the spiritual teachers of mankind to infant humanity.
		Mythology is therefore vital in its role of maintaining a "truer" account of man's psychological structure and origins.
		Mythology as we possess it is, in the main, the cosmological knowledge of the early civilizations which has been covered over and distorted by mankind when the racial fall to the physical plane led to the loss of direct spiritual communication with the superphysical hierarchies.
	members.aol.com /maatmythology/mythology.htm (4857 words)

	Scientific mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, historians of science and scientific educators often point out that scientific myths often contain an inspired "heroic" genius, and this obscures the role of social communication and collaboration in the scientific process as well as contributes to the perception that science is too hard for mere mortals to undertake.
		Also, scientific myths often contain an "evil" establishment, and this obscures the fact that there are often good reasons why the establishment believes what it does and that in many cases, the established view turns out to be correct.
		Scientific myths also tend to either overstate or understate the role of chance in scientific discovery, and the tendency to emphasize the dramatic tends to understate the incremental progress that constitutes most scientific advancement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scientific_mythology (1399 words)

	Mythology - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Mythology, the body of myths of a particular culture, and the study and interpretation of such myths.
		In Greek mythology, the earliest gods were Gaea (Earth) and Uranus (Heaven), and their children were called the Titans.
		Mythology has exerted a pervasive influence on the arts in all parts of the world from the earliest times.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761552210__1/Mythology.html (4665 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A mythology is a relatively cohesive set of myths: stories that comprise a certain religion or belief system.
		An excellent example of such a mythology is that developed by J.
		Some critics believe that the fact that the core characters and stories of modern story cycles are not in the public domain prevents the modern story cycles from sharing several essential aspects of mythologies.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/my/Mythology (593 words)

	SCIENCE AS A FORM OF MYTHOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Objective facts and scientific method are, in turn, necessary to 'justify' the presuppositions of science, for these presuppositions are so conceived that they reveal to us only that which scientific method allows for: what is contained in the notion of physical facts.
		The structure of the scientific mythology is neither less complex nor less question-begging than the structure of traditional mythologies.
		Mythologies are terribly important in the life of societies and civilisations.
	www.iouedu.com /press/06skol/06_01.html (456 words)

	Ask the Pundits
		Scientific theories are to be based upon testable, verifiable data present in the world.
		One of the challenges of a scientific theory of the past is to recover the data (fossils, starlight, etc.) in an accurate way in order to fashion and prove a theory.
		Scientific progress over the past few decades has given us a vast amount of data to use to discuss this theory, and there are far-reaching implications.
	www.karma2grace.org /Webcomponents/FAQ/index.asp?det=47 (2209 words)

	Tables
		The Sun is personified in many mythologies: the Greeks called it Helios and the Romans called it Sol.
		In Roman Mythology, the goddess of the Earth was Tellus - the fertile soil.
		In Roman mythology, Saturn is the god of agriculture, and the father of Zeus (Jupiter).
	home.mchsi.com /~cassieleber/csc120/table.html (708 words)

	SR43. Science as our modern mythology and basis for religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A people’s mythology not only describes their basic ingredients for understanding reality, but in fact defines what reality is for them.
		Our scientific stories, for instance, do not perform well in directing our behavior, they stimulate little emotional involvement, and they are not the centre of our rituals.
		It is a human enterprise, a mythology, which can work with the great insights of other human mythologies to produce for us all a fully functional religion.
	www.ksharpe.com /word/SR43.htm (3530 words)

	II-6
		The mythology of a particular society gets to be built into the character structure of its members.
		This is all the more true because it evokes the universal, perhaps eternal, mythological themes of the conflict between the generations and the sacrifice of youth, the long repressed filicidal tendencies that are part of the culture of every nation.
		The effect of mythological themes is so pervasive that the answer must be yes, while we recognize at the same time that much of our mythology has been fragmented, secularized and, as a result of the great influence of the media in our lives, directed primarily to the purposes of entertainment.
	www.psychoanalysis.net /IPPsa/Arlow/II-6 (2853 words)

	THE 4P APPROACH TO DEALING WITH SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY
		One of the main reasons for the problems with current methods of environmental management is scientific uncertainty not just its existence, but the radically different expectations and modes of operation that scientists and policymakers have developed to deal with it.
		The precautionary principle sets the stage for this approach, but the real challenge is to develop scientific methods to determine the potential costs of uncertainty and to adjust incentives so that the appropriate parties pay this cost of uncertainty and have appropriate incentives to reduce its detrimental effects.
		This body would use the latest independent scientific information on the worst-case ecological damages that could result from a business's activities, but the burden of proof would fall on the economic agent that stands to gain from the activity, not on the public.
	dieoff.org /page33.htm (5098 words)

	Norse Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Mythology provides "religious explanations" in the form of stories that were "handed down from generation to generation" (Encyclopedia Mythica Online).
		According to Norse mythology, creation began when Ginnungagap (a great void filled with powerful magic forces) was suddenly filled with rain from the rivers of Nifleheimir (a dark, misty world of death that had always existed).
		In a sense, Norse mythology was a way to explain the powerful forces that were beyond human control.
	www.bridgewater.edu /~atrupe/Best1_1/Norse.html (812 words)

	Intro Topic: History
		In the early Middle Ages - a time when Christian Europe turned away from scientific thinking - the science, mathematics, and astronomy of the ancient Greeks was kept alive in the Islamic world, where it was further developed and enriched by Moslem scholars.
		In the thirteenth century when this scientific heritage began to filter back into Western Europe, it was originally taken up by Christian monks and theologians.
		scientific revolution" of the seventeenth century is commonly said to mark a fundamental break between science and religion.
	www.pbs.org /faithandreason/intro/histo-body.html (546 words)

	Untitled Document
		Like many mythologies, it also has points held in dispute, points that are less than widely accepted, and points upon which heresy is severely punished.
		Historians readily agree that in reality progress continued to be made by Islamic scientists through-out the dark ages, and by Asian civilizations throughout this era and those both before and after it.
		These individuals claim that on the contrary, in the distant past humanity was more advanced than we give them credit for being, and that much of this ancient science was lost.
	bookofcruxshadows.com /BookofCruxshadowsSITE/BinarySoul/Underworld/scientificmythology/historical.htm (1148 words)

	WORLD MYTHOLOGY ASSOCIATION - Constitution, Criteria_for_Success
		An up-to-date scientific mythology program to support harmony must develop the ability in each person to live in natural harmony with himself, his fellow men, with animals and plants, and with nature.
		An analytical contemporary and progressive scientific mythology program to support harmony must be able to harmonise and strengthen the overall personality of each individual in such a way that he develops his natural cultural vitality and lives in harmony with himself, his fellow men and nature.
		A scientific mythology program linking human beings and peoples to support harmony must be efficient for every citizen in the world – independent of his/her sex, descent, language, home and origin, religious or political views.
	www.worldmythologyassociation.com /05_Constitution/P0301_Criteria_for_Success.php (242 words)

	Mythology - Gurupedia
		Greek mythology, and Norse mythology, which were nearly extinct at one time.
		Chippewa mythology - Creek mythology - Crow mythology -
		Salish mythology - Seneca mythology - Tsimshian mythology -
	www.gurupedia.com /m/my/mythology.htm (1049 words)

	SCHOLARSHIP AND SCIENCE: THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN CHRISTIAN THEISM, METAPHYSICAL NATURALISM AND RELATIVISM -- HOW TO ...
		While my epistemological and scientific waders are not high enough to engage in a polemic against evolutionary naturalism, rather than risk being swamped, I do want to discuss the naturalistic and theistic approaches as to epistemological, value assumptions and to explanatory power.
		A scientific system is one in which small groups of men and women cohere around an idea, then use the powers of persuasion and politics to establish that idea's dominance in their field, and to drive rival hypotheses -- along with those who propound them -- to the periphery.
		That shallow hope necessarily converts the scientific agenda to religious agenda; after all, the investigator engages in heuristic activities that are of ultimate concern to human beings.
	www.iclnet.org /pub/facdialogue/Issue26/Summers.html (5802 words)

	NoGodBlog.com - Bush pushed mythology
		When world mythology is taught as if it is the same methodology as science, something is very wrong with the understanding of the scientific method.
		Benchmark: A. Explain that scientific knowledge must be based on evidence, be predictive, logical, subject to modification and limited to the natural world.
		If the head of the most powerful country in the world, who managed a “C” in college and who holds no scientific degree of any sort, pushes for ID in the public school system, even though it doesn’t qualify as science (as if he’d know the difference), that is somewhat of a conspiracy.
	www.atheists.org /nogodblog/index.php/2005/08/02/bush_pushed_mythology (10314 words)

	Book Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This mythology is derived from the ancient religious, astronomical, symbolism of Egypt - a mythology(religion) based and formulated on the Cycles of the Sun, Moon, Stars and planets within the Cosmos.
		Mythology symbolizes the movements of the heavenly bodies within the cosmos.
		This registry of scientific conclusions then serves as a model by which scientists can accurately predict the recurrence of certain events based on their records of established cycles.
	www.newagedatabase.com /book02.htm (5912 words)

	Philosophical Origins of Evolution
		However, as new scientific discoveries proved those explanations false, men postulated newer theories on a more microscopic scale that had not yet been discovered by scientific technology.
		As scientific observations were developed and recorded by the Greeks, the question of origins, originally philosophical in nature, now appeared to be justified by naturalistic and materialistic explanations.
		Jan Baptista van Helmont (1577-1644 A.D.) developed the scientific recipe for the generation of mice: one simply needed to wrap wheat kernels and cheese curds in a sweat-soaked shirt and leave the bundle in an open container for 20 days.
	www.forerunner.com /forerunner/X0742_Philosophical_origin.html (1302 words)

	Getting acquainted with the myths \| Para familiarizarse con los mitos, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		And you have probably noticed that although the collection of facts and theories gathered by scientific research during the 19th and 20th centuries could be assumed to be the largest ever, we nevertheless remain under the impression that the acquaintance with the myths was more widespread in the past.
		From this difference of approach and temperament we have seen a most categorical discrepancy arise between the two men: scientific man asserts that mythical man invented the myths, whereas mythical man affirms that the myths were handed down to him by the gods.
		Thirdly, we perceive that the position of scientific man in this context resembles that of the 'reviewer' or 'critic', in the sense that scientific man does not create or invent any myths, but limits himself to studying them in one way or another.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/GettingAcquainted.html (8172 words)

	The Tribune - Reader Submissions
		After losing several constitutional court battles to inject their religious dogma into science classrooms, they are now trying to disguise "creation science" by calling it "intelligent design" and presenting it as a scientific theory on an equal footing with evolution.
		A scientific theory must produce hypotheses that can be tested and potentially disproved, either through direct observation, experimentation or sound reasoning.
		Any "scientific" theory that resorts to a supernatural explanation is not legitimate science.
	www.greeleytrib.com /article/20050424/READERS/104240077 (719 words)

	Science and Human Values - Mythology (1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		We shall find that if we attempt to define the structure of myth-making thought and compare it with that of modern (that is, scientific) thought, the differences will prove to be due rather to emotional attitude and intention than to a so-called pre-logical mentality.
		On this distinction scientific thought has based a critical and analytical procedure by which it progressively reduces the individual phenomena to typical events subject to universal laws.
		Even if we individually are unable to prove these almost unbelievable scientific views to be true, we accept them, because we know that they can be proved to possess a greater degree of objectivity than our sense-impressions.
	www.rit.edu /~flwstv/mythology1.html (12285 words)

	Mythology - MSN Encarta
		French writer Pierre Bayle, in his Dictionnaire historique et critique (Historical and Critical Dictionary, 1697), ridiculed the absurdity of the ancient Greek and Roman myths.
		These languages, scholars concluded, belonged to an Indo-European language family.
		Later in the 19th century the theory of evolution put forward by English naturalist Charles Darwin heavily influenced the study of mythology.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552210_3/Mythology.html (1860 words)

	The Pagan Prattle Online: School teaches myths instead of science
		Fundamentalist teachers are teaching mythology as scientific fact at a state-funded school in Gateshead.
		Emmanuel College, one of the Tories' City Technology Colleges, is supposed to be a beacon school with high standards yet young people there are taught that a being known as 'God' made the universe in six days and that this folk tale has more credibility than theories based on observable evidence.
		New scientific examination of the details of life reveal that the so called 'simple cell' is actually a very complex entity that includes a very complex system of manufacturing.
	www.prattle.net /archives/000049.html (548 words)

	BARF Mythology
		The Barfer emotional decisions to compare the feeding habits of wild canids to domestic dogs is without scientific foundation and places the domestic dog at risk.
		Comparing the needs of the current wolf to domestic dogs is not based in fact and certainly not based on 100,000 of years of natural selection and mutation inexorably forcing genetic change.
		These seven items comprise 93% of all adverse reactions.29 Internet mythology, emboldened by unscrupulous manufacturers anxious to create a niche in the market frequently ascribe allergies to corn, yet corn is one of the least likely sources of intolerance.
	www.woodhavenlabs.com /barf-myth.html (5890 words)

	Amazon.com: Mythology: Books: Edith Hamilton,Aphrodite Trust,Apollo Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		GREEK and Roman mythology is quite generally supposed to show us the way the human race thought and felt untold ages ago.
		Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" tell the "Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" of classical mythology and this volume, first written in 1942, is now a timeless classic itself.
		This book, mythology by Edith Hamilton is a pretty good book for pleasure and it has pretty good information too.
	www.amazon.com /Mythology-Edith-Hamilton/dp/0316341142 (2116 words)

	MYTHOLOGY WORLD ASSOCIATION - Constitution, Activities
		Therefore, the central objective of all scientific mythology programs of the MYTHOLOGY WORLD ASSOCIATION is to generally strengthen harmony.
		Particularly in this field, the cultural genius of the great classical composers has gained undivided appreciation everywhere in the world, indeed their profound musicological research and artistic music creations have become the absolute epitome of a respected culture of human education – most likely the only really welcome international vehicles of education and culture.
		Independent of sex, descent, language, home and origin, of religious or political views, the MYTHOLOGY WORLD ASSOCIATION offers all people who are interested the opportunity to participate in their scientific mythology programs.
	www.mythologyworldassociation.com /05_Constitution/P0401_Activities.php (309 words)

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