Proving Myth

Both science and mythology attempt to prove the things that we, as humans, do not know the answer to. People tend to believe science over mythology because it has more facts and statistics and other such things. However, I think that mythology is much more deeply rooted in us than science. If a person sees a ghost, their first reaction is that the ghost is the spirit of a dead person. Their first response is not, "Oh, my brain created an illusion of silvery matter in the shape of a human form." And, no matter how hard science tries to hammer scientific explanations into our brains, mythology was there first and remains there at the core of it all. We can't really prove science any more than we can mythology. We usually look to science to tell us the answers, and accept those answers as true, simply because science tells us they are. But myth is true for most people, as well as science. Nobody wants to hear that you love someone because of a chemical reaction in the brain, especially since nobody can prove it is true. You love somebody because a higher power fates you two to each other, or because it was meant to be that way. In this way, myth is already proven, and is held to a higher standard than science. Nobody knows what the Truth, with a capital T, is, but often peoples' truth, without a capital t, is defined by myth.