French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
A Jesuit priest who dug up Peking Man and tried to reconcile Darwin with Genesis — then had his books banned by the Vatican for theological trouble the Holy Office wouldn't name.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born in France on 1 May 1881 and entered the Jesuits, eventually training as both priest and scientist. He carried stretchers through the First World War, earning the Médaille militaire and the Legion of Honor. His paleontological work took him to China, where he joined the team that discovered Peking Man fossils in the Zhoukoudian caves near Beijing. At the same time he was writing speculative works that blended evolution, Christian mysticism, and ideas borrowed from Henri Bergson — conceiving things like the Omega Point and contributing, with Vladimir Vernadsky…
Sourced, dated quotes from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Personally, I stick to my idea that we are watching the birth, more than the death, of a World.
Through the incarnation God descended into nature in order to super-animate and take it back to him.
There is neither spirit nor matter in the world; the stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could produce the human molecule.
The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them.
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