Hello everyone, In this submission I will be reflecting on some of the ideas which Teilhard de Chardin sets out in Subsection (b) of Section I of Chapter I of...
This is part 2 of 3. The Jesuit paleontologist points out that when zoology encounters a type of creature that is more primitive than any which have already...
This is part 3 of 3. However long the megamolecular era lasted, it was one that, in Teilhard's view, advanced very slowly, as our rough estimate of 350 to 450...
The meaning in what we read and write was never contained in the ink. It was never contained in the masculine sense of about-ness (Yang-like reason), nor was...
Dear All & One, Dear Flavio, welcome in my universe (1)! ... Actually is very hard for a catholic to conciliate science and religion : I'm catholic like you,...
Hi, I am new to the group. I basically joined the group because I am going through my "religious" phase of where I am thinking of commiting myself to an...
... Speed of light in a vacuum is 186,272 miles per second as established by Michelson-Morely circa 1879. Many confirming increasingly accurate experiments in...
Thank you, dear Rudolf, for continuing to think of me in spite of my lack of participation since my husband's death To you and all our Teilhard eGroup members...
Dear Rudolf ( and All and One, that is a great salutation) You wrote: Actually is very hard for a catholic to conciliate science and religion : I'm catholic...
Thanks again, Brian, for your most helpful explanatory discussion. It was so good of you to write to us, Janice. Please know that our thoughts and prayers...
Dear Godmother of the Noosphere~ A heartfelt "thank you" for letting us know how you are and sharing with us your world. "And thus in thee the circuit vast Is...
Dear Guardian Angel, How wonderful to hear from you! Bless you for thinking of me. I shall lso ook for the arrival of your gift and letter for which I look...
Hello Judy (and all), Thanks for your post of July 7th along with the link to Cardinal Schonborn's article in the New York Times. It was informative to read...
... Hello Brian Something that I have noted in Internet debates is the teleological quality that becomes visible in the egoic circles of misunderstanding....
From Voghera: Dear All & One, Dear Flavio, thank you for your kind reply, about my previous post, I would like to correct my expression 'shocked' in the more...
Dear All & One: Dear Opalinedblue, ... God who is not a divine controller or designer of the cosmos, but a God who gives His creatures a significant (though...
Rudolf, I really like your added Awareness Approach: "that we, like everything, are organs of God in evolution from Alpha to Omega: our task is to participate...
Brian, your example of the fortuitous bus selection (copied below) to show a similarity to directed chance is a good one, it seems to me. We could take it a...
Hello Stephen (and all), Thanks for your post of July 9th and for the link to your letter to the Napa News. I'm not sure that I have fully understood all of...
Hello everyone, ... As I see it, there is merit in what Rudolf is saying here. I incline to the view that ecumenism means more than respectful dialogue and...
Hello Judy (and all), In a post dated July 10th, you have raised, I think, an important ... Indeed, a fortuitous event can, and often does, bring misfortune in...
... Hello Brian I agree with your analysis and views above and below. In the letter I used the phrase "an evolution that while blind is not random". I think I...
... not ... of ... P.S. "Blind to our eyes but not random" merely because the present leaves a signature on the past, a signature that is not determined by the...
Here is another interesting editorial from Sunday's (July 10) NYTimes: It's All Happening at the Tulsa Zoo Christian creationists won too much of a victory...
... Surely Fr. Teilhard and Cardinal Schonborn contemplated this passage: St. Paul to Romans 8:18 "For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not...
Dear Rudolf Dear all and one "A Christian who follows the catholic liturgy" . I have to thank for your words, and thank God, because I was filling very lonely...
Hello everyone, ... I am not a Catholic myself and so I cannot comment directly from the Catholic perspective. Such being the case, other list members, who...