Spatial Arrangement and Pattern in Emerging Knowledge

Abstract

This article explores man’s quest to understand the origin of life. It examined the concept of evolution in two worldviews and their roles in the making of new forms. Relying on theories in emergent philosophy, it argued that the African worldview embodies an insightful pattern and process that were embedded into science and made rational through a merging that fused spiritual with physical and enabled new forms into becoming concrete. Therein, it highlighted the possibility of reconciling science and religion by demonstrating that ideas in African traditional religion are compatible with concepts in Western knowledge 

Keywords: African studies, science, technology, new age