The Teilhard scientific-religious framework; biological evolution theory up to the present time; linguistic and dynamic modes, rate-dependent and rate-independent processes, and systems theory; physical, chemical and cosmological prpocesses, and hierarchical structure; order within seeming disorder, chaos, and system transition; hierarchical social organization; evolution of Western painting; the evolution of Mediterranean and Western religion; commonalities and rise and fall of civilizations and empires; synthesis and implications for 2000 AD and beyond.
