RE: Does atheism inspire people?
May 31, 2012 at 4:35 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2012 at 4:37 pm by StatCrux.)
(May 31, 2012 at 4:30 pm)Annik Wrote:(May 31, 2012 at 4:18 pm)StatCrux Wrote: Have you ever read any Teilhard de Chardin?
I don't understand what this has to do with my post.
Chardin was an existentialist who incorporated evolution into his theology,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin
In his posthumously published book, The Phenomenon of Man, Teilhard writes of the unfolding of the material cosmos, from primordial particles to the development of life, human beings and the noosphere, and finally to his vision of the Omega Point in the future, which is "pulling" all creation towards it. He was a leading proponent of orthogenesis, the idea that evolution occurs in a directional, goal driven way, argued in terms that today go under the banner of convergent evolution. Teilhard argued in Darwinian terms with respect to biology, and supported the synthetic model of evolution, but argued in Lamarckian terms for the development of culture, primarily through the vehicle of education