From time immemorial, or at least since humanity had left written texts that have come down to us, men had asked themselves how the world had come into being, what it was composed of, how it was ordered, and why natural phenomena occurred. For thousands of years, they had given themselves answers that all resembled one another: answers that referred to elaborate stories of spirits, deities, imaginary and mythological creatures, and other such similar things. From cuneiform tablets to ancient Chinese texts; from hieroglyphic writing in the pyramids to the myths of the Sioux; from the most
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