Ethnologists and anthropologists who study these myths say that in the modern context theologians try to discern humanity's meaning from revealed truths and scientists investigate cosmology with the tools of empiricism and rationality, but creation myths define human reality in very different terms.
Os etnólogos e antropólogos que estudan estes mitos din que no contexto moderno os teólogos tratan de discernir o significado da humanidade a partir de verdades reveladas e os científicos investigan a cosmoloxía coas ferramentas do empirismo e a racionalidade, pero os mitos da creación definen a realidade humana en termos moi diferentes.