Denis,

That culture is still a far more powerful influence in physics than many are willing to concede.

Education is a process of passing knowledge down from one generation to the next and many of our more deeply held assumptions have some fairly undeveloped conceptual bases.

In other topics, would a spiritual absolute be an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell, or the essence of sentience, from which we rise?

Consider the implications of an entire culture founded on the assumption of treating the ideal as absolute. It would be vary, very conflicted.

Even those ideologies not specifically theist still assume their beliefs to be universal.

Consider democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures and the Romans adopted and co-opted a monotheistic sect as the Empire solidified and remnants of the Republic faded. All about the Big Guy rules.

Or the idea that money is a commodity to mine from society, rather than an accounting device and contract enabling it. The medium has becomes the message.

To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while in nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. That's because it is the function of culture to get the community synchronized as a larger social organism, using the same languages, rules and measures. Yet nature is multicultural, not monocultural.

We are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality.

Life is a dance, not a race.