Aha, I did read one of his books back then, but can't really remember
much about it. All those neat generalizations about the universe moving
towards god, or something like that?
Doug
On 21-Nov-07, at 6:03 PM, MC Ward wrote:
> Ah, Teilhard--if ever a man needed a Susie Lamont....
> In (Catholic) high school, I did a science fair
> project/presentation on the noosphere and other
> notions of his. Not only did I not win any prizes
> (avant tho' I thought I was), but the two nuns who
> were judging me flamed me to hell and back.
>
> Guess he'd been defrocked by then. (Oh, and then there
> was his implication in the Piltdown Man fraud--talk
> about metaphysical!) Did anyone else get interested in
> him in the sixties? I still consider him a poet, as
> opposed to a philosopher or a scientist--and I mean
> that as a compliment, obviously.
>
> Candice
>
>
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