Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy
is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would
be the height of presumption to think that we are the only
living thing in that enormous immensity -– Wernher Von Braun To
suppose that earth is the only populated world in infinite space
is as absurd as to believe that in an entire field sown with
millet, only one grain will grow — Metrodorus of Chios 4th
century B.C. Robert Graves (Graves 1968) writes, “Mythology is
the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign
to a student’s experience that he cannot believe them to be
true; hence the English adjective ‘mythical’ meaning
‘incredible’; hence the omission from standard European
mythologies of all Biblical narrative even when closely
paralleled by myths from Persia, Babylonia, Egypt and Greece.”
For many modern skeptics the world’s oldest writings, on clay,
stone and papyrus, is simply myth. However, if we dismiss all of
the ancient literature and inscriptions – t