M*W: Without imagination there would be no progress in science. Imagination, however, is not evidence. It is the seed that eventually brings the evidence.
This is correct. However, when no evidence appears, then the theory is exposed as a myth. I just saw a documentary called "Clash of the Cavemen.' No, it wasn't produced by Steven Spielberg. It was considered a factual account of a neanderthal woman who was abducted. :bugeye: Now how anyone knew she was abducted is anyone's guess, nevertheless since the imagination is considered evidence in science, the show was considered a documentary.
In this "documentary" scientists admitted that there isn't one ounce of neanderthal DNA in human DNA. Duh! Only scientists don't know why animal DNA can't get into human DNA, especially the DNA of fictitious animals. Nevertheless, scientists keep insisting that these fictitious creatures once turned into humans.
So myths die hard, long after the lack of evidence has been presented over and over and over again. That's because the more arrogant one becomes, the further he has to fall when he finds out he was wrong.