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These questions have been asked so often in one form or another that they, and the answers to them, have become almost cliches. But the man who asked-and answered-those above was no cliche-monger. He was the late French Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), a noted paleontologist who was forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church to publish his philosophical writings, which have since sparked a posthumous cult of "Teil-hardism" in France. Recently published in the U.S. is a book Teilhard wrote 35 years ago - a spiritual meditation on the cosmology he later developed from...
...Christian and a neurophysician. I hold Teilhard's opinions to be confirmed in my own field of research. I am particularly aware of the kinship of Teilhard's scientific views and of the philosophy of Aquinas...
...unfortunate that Father Teilhard neglects consideration of the Creation, when physical science continually demonstrates the Creator's hand. The intricate organization of matter 'and energy that physical science has shown to exist is proof enough that this organization was created. The unanswered question...
...true that friends and opponents alike may find it hard to understand that Teilhard's conception of evolution is not in disagreement with the traditional Roman Catholic outlook. But this comes from a misunderstanding that could have most unfortunate consequences...
...Teilhard, drawing both from his scientific experience and from the mystical vision of his faith, reached the conviction that Christianity, and Christianity alone, in its Catholic form could save the modern world from intellectual despair by revealing the full spiritualizing significance of our scientific and technical endeavors. To accomplish this, communications had to be re-established between the two distinct worlds of science and of the Church. A breach between them has not always existed. In the days of Aquinas, for instance, science and religion were not yet alienated. But since then, a gradual process has drawn them apart. Teilhard...