Science erases myth and replaces it with factual knowledge. Science presents a comprehensive and exclusive explanatory scheme that claims to describe and map reality, but the reality apprehended by way of science seems always short of its claims for itself and for the way we are to think about the world.
Science sets itself up against myth.
It is not, however ultimately, the fanciful and rhetorical claims to omnipotence that makes science mythic, but the transformative power of its totalizing claim on our imagination that makes Science yet another myth. The Science Myth found its way into law with the help of Christopher Columbus Langdell who held that law too was a science. This late 19th century conception of law, itself the work of mythic thinking, has today worn thin and frail. Every discipline is an iceberg. What we see above the surface is a prosaic and instrumental methodology, a body of abstract theory, a language of proposition and description, and a group of organized practitioners.