Teilhard and the Future of HumanityFifty years after his death, the thought of the French scientist and Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (18811955) continues to inspire new ways of understanding humanitys future. Trained as a paleontologist and philosopher, Teilhard was an innovative synthesizer of science and religion, developing an idea of evolution as an unfolding of material and mental worlds into an integrated, holistic universe at what he called the Omega Point. His books, such