Humans acquired these traditions over time, ordering the experience world for its members resulting in structure, identity, meaning and values held in common, thus defining uniquely each particular society. Such formation processes continue today in our modern world and are specific as to time, place, people and circumstance. In order to reflect the modern aspect of such change processes I use the term framework to include ideologies and science along with the older human tradition, which include religions. Each such framework orders the experience world of its members, albeit according to differing notions and criteria.
To define a starting point for the formation of such ordering frameworks for humans I would suggest language development. Naming things in your environment is basic to ordering. A modern example is the work by Linnaeus who began the classification of plants and the earlier local giving of names to plants and animals is an ordering process by means of language in early human days.
Many natural phenomenae had to be named as well, some needing an explanation as to cause and purpose in order to reduce the uncertainty of unexpected and disruptive events. Similarly today we also want explanations of unexpected events and predictions even if possible. All such activity I see as part and parcel of our human need to create order in the experience world of which we are conscious. Disorder is not on our wish list, though it may and does occur.
To exclude [from the framework] any phenomenon ‘a priory‘ - in principle - leads to a bias in the decision making leading to inadequate measures, solutions and possible conflicts.
Today’s ordering problem involves defining a framework that can accommodate the large variety of frameworks of our modern humanity. Each being unique, but not to the exclusion of any other. We have to deal with each and every one on the principle that Existence Divine includes all that exists.
To exclude any phenomenon ‘a priory‘ - in principle - leads to a bias in the decision making leading to inadequate measures, solutions and possible conflicts. However, we may consider staged approaches in finding accommodation, as long as we keep tabs, so to speak.
The main reason we want to include the above mentioned modern sciences in our ordering and belief frameworks, is that it can help us in understanding how the early human traditions, such as religions, formed. The time of beginning for modern homo sapiens - humans- is ca sixty thousand years ago (60kya). This is the established time presently, that humans emerging from the present African continent, to spread in trickles, leaps and bounds over the entire globe in the next twenty thousand (20 000) years [20ky].
Modern science can also assist us in defining a shared history of humankind by means of the discoveries in the disciplines of biology, archaeology and anthropology, being that of DNA, ancient civilisations and species development, respectively. Science that way, has a unique and potentially objective voice in defining a shared beginning for our diverse humankind and help in formulating a common basis, on which our various value and belief frameworks can be understood, valued and respected.
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