Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (1881 – 1955) was a French
idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and
geologist and took part in the discovery of the Peking Man.
He conceived the vitalist idea of the Omega Point (a maximum
level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe
was evolving) and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere.
Although many of Teilhard's writings were censored by the
Catholic Church during his lifetime because of his views on original sin,
Teilhard has been posthumously praised by Pope Benedict XVI and other eminent
Catholic figures, and his theological teachings were cited by Pope Francis in
the 2015 encyclical, Laudato si'. The response to his writings by evolutionary
biologists has been, with some exceptions, decidedly negative.
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