Science is the opposite of a myth because science is facts and only facts while a myth can be made up by someone else. What I mean is that science is a systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular subject so it can't be made up while myths can be made up.
The relationship between myth and science is a subject as old as that of myth and science themselves. The position on the issue taken by modern theories of myth can be divided chronologically by the centuries. In the nineteenth century, myth and science were commonly taken to be incompatible.
