This view has certain similarities to the concepts of Christogenesis advocated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a paleontologist and geologist, believed that evolution unfolded from cell to organism to planet to solar system and ultimately the whole universe, as we humans see it from our limited perspective.

The Noosphere (; sometimes noösphere ), according to the thought of Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin, denotes the " sphere of human thought ".

It was introduced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1922 in his Cosmogenesis.

While there are process theologies that are similar, but unrelated to the work of Whitehead ( such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ) the term is generally applied to the Whiteheadian / Hartshornean school.

#* For example, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Omega Point and Ian Barbour's sympathy towards process philosophy / process theology.

* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pope Benedict XVI cites Teilhard de Chardin in a vision of the cosmos as a ' living host ' embracing an understanding of ecology that includes mankinds's relationship to fellow men, that pollution effects not just the natural world but interpersonal relations also.

Soleri's philosophy and works have been strongly influenced by the Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

In August 1913, Woodward, Dawson and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit priest and friend of Dawson who had trained as a paleontologist and geologist, began a systematic search of the spoil heaps specifically to find the missing canines.

The identity of the Piltdown forger remains unknown, but suspects have included Dawson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Arthur Keith, Martin A. C. Hinton, Horace de Vere Cole and Arthur Conan Doyle.

* Roberts, Noel Keith ( 2000 ), From Piltdown Man to Point Omega: the evolutionary theory of Teilhard de Chardin ( New York: Peter Lang )

* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955 ) Jesuit priest, paleontologist, philosopher

In the 1950s Huxley played a role in bringing to the English-speaking public the work of the French Jesuit-palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who he believed had been unfairly treated by the Catholic and Jesuit hierarchy.

He played an orchestra conductor in Interlude and a Vatican priest loosely based on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in The Shoes of the Fisherman in 1968, the same year he divorced Power.

The etymology of the term " transhuman " goes back to French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin who wrote in his 1949 book The Future of Mankind:

* Teilhard de Chardin and Transhumanism

* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin et la politique africaine ( 1962 )

* The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are denounced by the Roman Catholic Church.

Omega Point is a term coined by the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( 1881 – 1955 ) to describe a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving.

Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man states that the Omega Point must possess the following five attributes.

* Julian May's Galactic Milieu Series draws heavily for both plot and background on the concepts of Teilhard de Chardin's Omega point theories.

* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

* Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de ♦ The Phenomenon of Man Scanned book in the Internet Archive

* Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de ♦ The Phenomenon of Man An HTML version of the book ( without illustrations )

* Princeton Noosphere project cites Teilhard de Chardin

* Teilhard de Chardin on evolution

Much of the appeal of the series stems from its extensive use of references and allusions from a wide array of thinkers such as Teilhard de Chardin, John Muir, Norbert Wiener, and to the poetry of John Keats, a famous English Romantic poet of the 19th century, Norse Mythology, and the monk Ummon ; a large number of technological elements are acknowledged by Simmons to be inspired by elements of Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.

Teilhard later influenced Thomas Berry and many Catholic humanist thinkers of the 20th century.

Another possibility is the first use of the term by Édouard Le Roy, who together with Teilhard was listening to lectures of Vladimir Vernadsky at Sorbonne.

For Teilhard, the noosphere emerges through and is constituted by the interaction of human minds.

Teilhard argued the noosphere is growing towards an even greater integration and unification, culminating in the Omega Point, which he saw as the goal of history.

It is also the reason Teilhard is often called the patron saint of the Internet.

Teilhard soon found a canine that, according to Woodward, fitted the jaw perfectly.

A few days later Teilhard moved to France and took no further part in the discoveries.

Teilhard had travelled to regions of Africa where one of the anomalous finds originated, and resided in the Wealden area from the date of the earliest finds.

* 1912 June: Dawson, Woodward, and Teilhard form digging team.

In this theory, developed by Teilhard in The Future of Man ( 1950 ), the universe is constantly developing towards higher levels of material complexity and consciousness, a theory of evolution that Teilhard called the Law of Complexity / Consciousness.

They also discount Christian faith positions, like those of French Jesuit priest, geologist and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who saw that his work with evolutionary sciences actually confirmed and inspired his faith in the cosmic Christ.

In 1945, he invited philosophers Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit inventor of the concept of the noosphere, and who wasn't in particularly good terms with the Roman Curia, and the Russian Nikolai Berdyaev at his home, but both men couldn't understand each other.

According to Teilhard evolution does not cease here but continues on to its culmination and unification in the Omega Point, which he identifies with Christ.

From 1920 to 1929 the Porters lived at 13 rue Monsieur, a house next door to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and with a garden adjoining the future residence of Nancy Mitford.

He was likened by academic theologians in one New York Times articleto the controversial and influential 20th century Jesuit priest, philosopher and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, particularly for his interpretations of issues such as the doctrine of original sin and the Cosmic Christ and for the resulting conflicts with church authorities.

Just before and during the conciliar years, with the blessing of his order, de Lubac also began to write and publish books and articles in defense of the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, his older friend and fellow Jesuit, who had died in 1955.

Teilhard ’ s ideas had influenced several of the theologians of the nouvelle théologie and had also met with extreme disfavor in Rome.