Americans seem to still prefer
mythology over science.
Not exact matches
That was the universal biblical view for
over 2,000 years, until
science proved it to be simply
mythology.
We will get
over it when you stop using your religion to legislate who people can marry, insisting on teaching your
mythology into a
science classroom, covering up crimes against children, allow birth control in countries that can't feed themselves in the first place... need more?
For those who understand it, it is symbolic of
science's triumph
over mythology as a way to understand the heavens.
In fact an early scene in which the
mythology and back - story of the inhabitants of Barsoom is laid out in voice -
over sent shivers up my spine recalling the opening scene of David Lynch's misbegotten 1984 film Dune, a failed big budget adaptation of classic
science fiction literature hailed at the time as the «new Star Wars».