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Teilhard de Chardin

American  
[te-yar duh shar-dan] / tɛ yar də ʃarˈdɛ̃ /

noun

  1. Pierre 1881–1955, French Jesuit priest, paleontologist, and philosopher.


Teilhard de Chardin British  
/ tɛjar də ʃardɛ̃ /

noun

  1. Pierre (pjɛr). 1881–1955, French Jesuit priest, palaeontologist, and philosopher. The Phenomenon of Man (1938–40), uses scientific evolution to prove the existence of God

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The late French Jesuit, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, was at once a scientist, a Roman Catholic priest, a theologian, a true mystic.

From Reuters • May 19, 2018

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

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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