The Mythic Universe Is Not Pro Science

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Myth is not primitive proto science. Science might be considered description of the world with regard to those aspects that are consensually apprehensible. Myth describes things in terms of their unique or shared effective valance, their value, their motivational significance. The sky and the earth of the sumerians are not the sky and earth of modern man. Therefore they are the great father and mother of all things.

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Note: In our discussion of Jordan Peterson’s political correctness lecture, I made a sarcastic comment about looking “slim in this dress.” After the episode came out, we started hearing from listeners that my comment reminded them of fatphobic jokes they’d heard in the past and didn’t feel consistent with the message of the show. They were right! It was a bad joke and we've removed it from the episode. We'll be discussing this and our approach to handling feedback and editing past episodes in more detail soon. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to let us know! — Mike

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