Humans are notoriously obstinate. If you ever doubt that, try teaching one who is determined not to learn. (That's different from those who can't learn of course, those unable by construction and not instruction.) No, for any number of reasons - often laziness - there are those who consider changing their mind like changing their fingernails, the quicker the more painful. Yet if we are to improve, our methodology must appeal to every nature we possess, never overestimating one in self-inflicted exclusion of the others. And to that end we can take advantage of a human weakness, they do so love a good story.

The notion of science introduces the concept of the objective, examining things that remain true whether or not you want them to be. But science can never be more than just a structure of internal consistency that any myth requires. Every animal needs a skeleton but the animal is much more than that. In shape it may appear different, or in strength, or in the domain it masters. And similarly not every myth shares that same structure, although sometimes they do.

The notion of myth inevitably involves the subjective, that accumulated yet filtered sense of awareness that represents a view of experience that may not be logical but is often so. Animals may appear in myth but only while acting as instruments or proxies, they are catalysts to a process that remain unchanged even as they facilitate the desired reaction. Subjective experience does not require internal consistency since it is internal consistency. And when internal consistency breaks down, when the explanatory model no longer suffices, thankfully the wellspring of human genius compensates by "connecting the dots."

There's another advantage of myth over science, we can create our own myths. That may also be a disadvantage, in that some myths will have decidedly more utility than others! Mythmaking is almost, by definition, the time-tested foundation of popular culture. What good is a myth unknown by the masses? (The strongest wind stirs both undergrowth and towering forest.) On the other hand, myth will never ever become reality (nor live happily ever after). Science, on the other hand, can become arbitrarily close to reality. That's what's wrong with all the idealistic crusades to "liberate" people from their superstitions, namely you can't interpret another's superstitions without benefit of your own. And you can't replace a myth with science; to replace a myth requires a better myth.

So get to work on it. Start constructing your own, better myth. And spread it around.