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Pretty early on in the story, one can know this is just a myth, and not actually something that happened in real life. For example, the first sentence says, "In the beginning there was no world, no land, no creatures of the kind that are around us now, and there were no men." We know that scientifically, we can prove that in the beginning there was in fact a world, land that wasn't built by a person, and there were creatures (humans) like there are now.
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It is giving up principles to pacify an aggressor. Winston Churchill opposed the policy of appeasement by blatantly saying Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor.
According to our current knowledge, planets are formed around a new star by condensing in a disc of molecular gas and dust, embedded within a larger molecular cloud. Condensation increases until they become giant planets, which are heated, then cleanse their orbits in the disc and possibly bend it.