Teilhard de Chardin
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This theory was carried into the 20th century by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit priest and palaeontologist who, like Fedorov, believed that evolution would lead to the Kingdom of God.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2017
As a consequence, several other suspects are now off the hook, Dr De Groote said, including the French priest Teilhard de Chardin who excavated an isolated canine tooth at the Piltdown I site in 1913.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2016
Francis Thackeray, a paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, says he “strongly suspects” Teilhard de Chardin was in on the hoax.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2016
And Reichs weaves in a quotation from the French priest-philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2015
Eventually Elster begins to sound a little like the French philosopher Teilhard de Chardin, imagining an omega point beyond consciousness and human evolution.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2010
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