"Cosmology might seem like a rarefied discipline, but in many indirect ways it touches everyone. We all have a need to know why the world is as it is and how we came to exist. Throughout history, societies have sought to address this need by producing creation myths: accounts which weren't explanations in the scientific sense but stories intended to place human beings in the context of a grander scheme."
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