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Big Bang as a Creation Myth

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The Big Bang narrative is for sure a Creation Myth, since it's a folk symbolic/metaphoric narrative of a scientific hypothesis. For reference:

https://nautil.us/the-big-bang-is-hard-science-it-is-also-a-creation-story-rp-235061/

https://www.eps.mcgill.ca/~courses/c180/BigBang%20as%20creation%20myth.pdf

https://www.studocu.com/en-us/document/valencia-college/mythology/modern-creation-world-of-myth/2119481 5.91.187.214 (talk) 17:15, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-myth-of-the-beginning-of-time-2006-02/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.91.187.214 (talk) 17:16, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Two of those are the same as each other with uncertain reliability, one is a file-sharing site with no provenance of content, one uses term myth to mean a misconcception but it's talking about whether the Big Bang was really the beginning of everything. Taken together, I don't see anything to do with these refs at this time. DMacks (talk) 22:37, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested name alteration to "Creation narrative"

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I feel that this article would be more objective if the name was changed to "Creation narrative", as this would be more objective than "Creation myth", a title which unobjectively paints the subject matter as being definitively a myth. Joieman (talk) 15:45, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Joieman. The article title would need to follow WP:COMMONAME. You can set up a WP:RM discussion and make the case based on that guideline why "creation narrative" should be used instead of "creation myth". For example, a look at Google Scholar shows since 2020 that "creation myth" has 6,130 results here where "creation narrative" has 3,120 results here. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 16:10, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please look at the top of this page and read the links there. I also need to ask if you have read the article completely. Doug Weller talk 16:24, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]