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Why humanity is ill-served by threadbare mythologies

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For as far back as we have archeological records, and almost certainly long before then, we humans have worshipped imaginary magical creatures and imbued them with attributes conjured by our extremely limited imaginations. We have done this, and continue to do it, because our brains are far too limited to grapple with complex reality. As all brains…