What is the difference between an explanation and a justification?

It is commonly believed that religion

was created to explain things in nature, but was there a time when we did not need to explain reality; it
was merely revealed to us. The people closest to this reality would be the aboriginals scattered
throughout the world. They have 2 less chromosomes than we do, and they believe that everything in the
universe dreams to them. For instance a flint rock dreams the potential to become a fire, and the means
through which they interact with this knowledge is called dreamtime. “Dreamtime” is state of
consciousness all members of a tribe can experience, in which they can recall the experiences of any
other tribe member. This seemingly unique trait is innate in our genetic code and therefore must have
some bearing on society, but to what degree? This theory would explain the re-occurring instances of
inventions simultaneously being invented around the world at the same time. Studies were even done with
people who do crossword puzzles to test for any evidence of a shared consciousness. A control group was
given a week old crossword puzzle that thousands of other people had completed; they scored 20 percent
higher than the people who completed the same puzzle a week before. The irony of pursuing an ultimate
understanding of their perception is that our 2 extra chromosomes create an ego that thinks it’s
subjective reality is separate from that of anyone else’s. What makes this even more interesting is that
there are children being born today with 2 extra chromosomes than the average human. They are said to
be born with a higher form of consciousness that, unlike us, allows them to utilize this shared
consciousness.

So what do we have to explain this paradigm shift from aboriginal to man, early man to modern man? The
story of Ishmael by Daniel Quinn explains how the story of Adam and Eve was really early man telling a
story of modern man and his conquest of the world. The first forms of modern man being the first
agriculturalists, between the Tigris and Euphrates. The hunter/gathers had an innate own form of
religion, called animism, they believed, like the aboriginals that everything in the universe was god
animated. They respected the eco-systems of nature and therefore understood good and evil as relative
to an animal’s respective place on the ecological totem pole. Basically what’s good for the bear is evil to
the fish, etc. Adam & Eve’s eating from the tree of good and evil was a metaphor for those tribes that
choose to conquer the world. The social, and by social I mean eco-logical affect of this decision was that
the descendants of Adam and Eve’s population would increase exponentially as a result of a uncapped food
supply. This was revolutionary in that before man existed in tribes of no more than 40 and never took
more than he needed.
Population (in Millions)

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Population graphs show this exponential growth from around the same time as Sumerian culture, 4-2,000
BCE. But was this an explanation or a justification? To the tribes around the world, it explained this
savage philosophy of raping the earth for its natural resources. For the Sumerians and their descendants
it was a justification, epitomized by their contribution to the world, cuneiform, the first known form of
writing created in 3000 BCE.
*chart data from http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html