3defense must provide the better or best narrative of what actually occurred. The better or bestnarrative will be the most believable, the most persuasive, the most compelling, the mostacceptable, even the most entertaining.Storytelling is basic to human understanding of both simple and complex situations."Most scientists do storytelling and model building." "Once Upon a Time There Was a Theory,"Donald N. McCloskey, Scientific American, Vol. 272, No. 2, February 1995, p. 25. "Even wheneconomists rely on models, decisions about what to include or what conclusions to draw turn onsome principle of storytelling." Id. "The same issues of narrative aesthetics appear inpaleontology. Classic Darwinian evolution proceeds like a film in dignified slow motion:punctuated equilibrium interleaves still photographs with bursts of silent movies." Id. "NobelPrize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg wrote a paper in 1983 called 'Beautiful Theories' tomake the point that aesthetic principles are at the heart of good physics." Id.According to Harvard theologian Harvey Cox, "the next century will be shaped by thepeople who can tell the best stories." Law Practice Magazine, Vol. 23, No. 4 (May/June 1997),p. 20.The reality is that human beings, whether resolving the mundane issues of everyday lifeor using science to alter radically the human situation, resort to storytelling as the method ofunderstanding and solving problems. Storytelling is the universal means of communicating andpersuading.