[rdtsc]

Unless we think gods, talking animals, totems, spirits are real we've learned that many stories are embellished.

Another way to look at it that boring factual recipes and rules were not fun to tell and remember but the ones with drama and extra flourish were. So those are the ones that survived better.

[narag]

Embellished is not the same as made up. Adam could be a real person, just obviously not the first man, but the first patriarch recorded by jew tradition, so his story was mixed with the creation tale. Egyptians believed that pharaohs were gods. Talking animals might be a misunderstanding, when animal names were actually monikers for some persons or tribes, etc.

[snapdangle]

So what is your explanation for the spacefaring journeys through the solar system found within ancient Hindu texts?

Animals do speak, actually. This is something you might not have come to understand or accept yet, but science is no longer able to assert that animals are not communicating in distinct languages. Everywhere we have studied, we have found one.

So the ability to understand an animal and learn its language is absolutely not far fetched, except to the fragile conception of human history that is the Western mind.

[rdtsc]

> Unless we think gods, talking animals, totems, spirits are real we've learned that many stories are embellished.

Notice, I prefixed it with "unless we think...". Surprisingly some of us do think, so then the statement doesn't apply there. And I suspect this forum is not appropriate to convince otherwise.

> So what is your explanation for the spacefaring journeys through the solar system found within ancient Hindu texts?

Right. Well ancient aliens apparently. It was on History Channel after all.

[snapdangle]

My point is that space travel would have been considered high fantasy aka impossible during previous eras of scientific reasoning.

And yet now we know that it is indeed possible, and are close to achieving it ourselves.

[mikeash]

What is your explanation of for the ancient spacefaring journeys through a distant galaxy found in the works of the modern sage Lucas?