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Shunell Smith
Professor Butterly
REL 401 – Module 3 Essay
13 November 2008
Relation of Christianity and World Religions
Teilhard was committed to his work in science but he was also a religious man.
Despite his speculations and optimism about evolution, Teilhard based his collective
thoughts in the term of love, increasing in our global species. The basis of his research
and method was the outcome of God’s existence, which was not taking in well by the
Vatican’s. Surely, he would have been ecstatic about today’s technology. Teilhard
presented the fact of natural growth and evolution during a time when scientific theory
was not heard of and taken as a threat to other religions mental acts and traditional
values.
Regrettably, for him in trying to compose the real with the unreal, this Jesuit priest
content did not appeal to any community. Although, judging properly as to what is true
and not resisting the truth of evolution, the Roman Catholic Church offered no large
scope and particular evolutionary exposition for the origin and history of life or the
outgrowth and future of humankind. Teilhard attention accounted on the earth and to our
own species. In this respect, he was not on the same page as the other modern thinkers
who offered relevant data in which humankind is altogether vanishing quickly in this
material universe.
In The Phenomenon of Man, Teilhard writes:
“Is evolution a theory, a system or a hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy
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henceforth if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow....The consciousness of each of us is evolution looking at itself and reflecting upon itself....Man is not the center of the universe as once we thought in our simplicity, but something much more...