Armstrong's book on Axial Age, The Great Transformation Karen Armstrong's The Great Transformation, dealing with the Axial Age, just published, has brought...
Hello everyone, This is part 1 of 4. In Section 1 of Chapter II of Part II of 'The Human Phenomenon', by way of a corollary, Teilhard de Chardin treats of...
This is part 3 of 4. In the opinion of the Jesuit paleontologist, as life is engaged in ingeniously assembling material components into a living whole, it...
This is part 4 of 4. Teilhard, as we may recall, expresses a disquiet about the possibility of future strikes against evolution by that portion of evolution...
Again, Brian, thank you. Such a clear presentation of Teilhard's thought in this "ingenuity" section. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi Rudolf, You wrote: Dear All&One, before releasing the conclusive post about Homogenesis, I would like to discuss about the previous posts with everyone who...
Hi Brian, ... From: Brian Cowan To: Group Teilhard Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 2:12 PM Subject: [teilhard] (1 of 4) The Ways Of Life: Ingenuity Hello...
Hi, Did Armstrong give an explanation of the Eonic effect? And do you have one? I am inclined to believe that it is the result of human evolution: when the...
I wish Armstrong had mentioned the eonic effect! There are a number of people out there reacting to my work who wouldn't cite my text. The question of...
Hello everyone, First of all a word of thanks to Judy and Jelke who have kindly commented on my submission entitled 'The Ways Of Life: Ingenuity'. Apropos of...
Hello everyone, Those on the list who are following the evolution vs. intelligent design debate might be interested in the recent news article at the following...
Brian And a happy Easter to you too.... ".....the Vatican has come forward to say it has no quarrel with Darwin - that it is possible to believe in God and...
Hi Brian, Good stuff! :-). I was going to reply to this post piece by piece, but, if I am not mistaken, your main point is the separation of serial reality and...
Hi Brian, A good overview! And I agree that Teilhard has a good 'middle of the road' position which is understandable as he was both a scientist and a priest....
Hello Brian, I submit these observations. (1) Evolution is real as any fact that can be supported by observation and data. Change is everywhere, there is no...
Hello Brian and everyone This message is just to agree with Brian's view of Teilhard thinking. As you can notice, I love to agree with Brian,it seems a mirror...
Hello Jelke (and all), In my opinion you raise a number of thought provoking points. Thus, - You suggest that perhaps what we need to do, in order to come up...
Hello everyone, A word of thanks to Raymond, Jelke, Stephen and Flavio for their comments on my post regarding evolution and intelligent design. I concur with...
Hi Brian, You wrote: . The Plotinian notion of creation differs from the traditional Christian notion of creation whereby God creates what is not-God from ...
Brian, Thank you for the excellent comments about Teilhard, materialistic scientistic Darwinian evolution, and intelligent design. I agree with what you have ...
Hello Janice and everyone, Below my response to Christian Allègre who wrote to me at the suggestion of our group member, Dr. Jacques Abbatucci. Christian is...
Hi, all, Just for the record, there was a review of an earlier book by Karen Armstrong (The Spiral Staircase: A Memoir) in November 2004 in the Times Higher...
Hello Finbarr (and all), ... This is a good point, in my opinion. I would concur that there is no contradiction between, on the one hand, - the notion that an...
The NY Review of Books has an article/review of some books on Evo-devo, which isn't online yet, so I will defer extensive comment. Seeing the strategy of the...
Hi Brian, I'm coming out from under the backlog of a wonderful long Easter weekend with all the family here. I still have to get the information off to the ...
Forgive the lateness of my reply. I have been busy putting in a garden and resting from that effort. There is a Bibical passage that relates to the point when...
Angels and evolution We have all heard of many people who have had encounters that seem miraculous: mysterious strangers coming seemingly out of nowhere in...
Hello Elizabeth (and all), Your comments apropos of angels and evolution are thought- provoking and do, in my opinion, merit serious pondering. The examples...