Mythical vs. Scientific Proof

When we hear about the word "myth", we think about fictional, entertaining stories from the past. What we do not think about is how they could possibly be factual or have some aspect of the truth in them. Our truth and our fact usually consist of modern science, current information that is widely accepted. I think the reason our concept of fact keeps changing is that people want to have evidence that is extremely detailed and does not leave room to manoeuvre. An example of this would be the many reasons people have come up with to explain why the sun moves across the sky. The Greek mythological explanation is that the sun-god, Helios, is driving a fiery chariot. Our modern explanation is that the earth is rotating throughout the course of a day, exposing it to the sun at different angles. Neither one of those explanations, when looked at from a neutral perspective is more viable than the other. The evidence for both of them is that the sun moves across the sky each day and this is always true. I think that we have come to value our modern reason more than the mythological one is that people like everything to fit into an easily defined and predictable pattern. If we admit that it is really a human-like god controlling the sun, then that throws our world into disarray, we can no longer be sure of our predictions and that brings humans entirely out of their comfort-zone.