Quote Originally Posted by Ghostman View Post
That would mean that every origin story that contradicts said explanations will be objectively wrong. That's dull. It's much more exciting when there's a multitude of different ideas that could be true.

There's also the issue that origin stories aren't necessarily universal. They might only claim to explain the appearance of people and other life forms within a particular part of the world: "The great Crane-Mother raised this island from the bottom of the sea, then but a lump of naked rock, and she sowed the Seeds of Life upon that rock, from which sprang all the plants, and from the mud of the seafloor she fashioned animals and our very first ancestors." <--- It's not good to paint ourselves in such a narrow corner where there's no room left for this to be introduced as a (potentially) actual fact in the setting.
But we are the only ones that knows the truth. People in the world don't know it. (Well maybe some do, but they are a minority)

we could say : this is what happened for real
and this is what x/y/z culture think has happened