Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

French philosopher and Jesuit priest

Date of Birth: 01-May-1881

Date of Death: 10-Apr-1955

Profession: writer, Catholic priest, geologist, theologian, paleontologist, philosopher, paleoanthropologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French: [pj?? teja? d? ?a?d?~] (listen ); 1 May 1881 – 10 April 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 he developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of noosphere. Although a monitum was issued in regard to some of Teilhard's ideas, he 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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