Our creator is awaiting the start of eighth grade. He put us, his seven grade science fair (honorable mention), in the back of his closet. It is only a matter of time before the matrix breaks down.

He don't say myth in the sense of false, he says that it is a myth comparing as the knowledge of the beginning of all. Sagan is very poetic in his texts and he tries to shape science in a way that our monkey brain finds it beautiful and appealing to feelings.

When he talks about creation myth he is saying that Big-bang is the tale that science tells is the origin of the universe, comparing it with other "knowledge systems" like religion. But in all his texts is clear that what comes from science is more useful, trustworthy and true than other sources.

So if you stop isolating phrases and see the whole context, he is not saying it is false.

@Pedrohbds I never implied false, however I find people imply false when calling biblical allegory a myth.

I understand, modern science has a bigger lexicon to choose technical jargon to be more specific than what people may unapprecitatively refer to as "goat hearder myth".

@Pedrohbds myth

1. a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.

2. a widely held but false belief or idea.

One thing is, "the big bang theory" is not a story.

So, Sagan was saying big bang is a story, or falsafiable?

@Pedrohbds allegory
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

So, now let's compare biblical story and big bang theory as myth and/or allegory?

@Pedrohbds what do you know about big bang theory?

Allegory of hidden meaning?

Ruach elohim was hovering over the waters.
Translated into English as spirit of god was hovering...

Original language "ruach" means force.

Force of almighty was hovering over waters.
Almighty one said, "let there be light" Then there was light. Genesis

To speak is to take air bouncing in lungs with out an intellegentable patter, force that air thru the mouth and give sounds of intellectual patterns.

Light is energy in an intellageable pattern of colors.
Genesis

Force is studied in physics and chemistry.
Infinate energy of undefinable 1/0 singularity, then bang, some 1000s of years later of expance, light forms.

Biblical allegory sounds like a story that the big bang theory could be formulated from.