French Paleontologists - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Georges Cuvier, Charles Barrois, Joachim Barrande, Bruno Granier, Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Alc (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Georges Cuvier, Charles Barrois, Joachim Barrande, Bruno Granier, Andre Leroi-Gourhan, Alcide d'Orbigny, Michel Brunet, Auguste Bravard, Paul Gervais, Edouard Lartet, Louis Lartet, Emilien Dumas, Anne Dambricourt-Malasse, Adolphe d'Archiac, Jean-Francois-Albert du Pouget, Jean Albert Gaudry, Edouard de Verneuil, Philippe Janvier, Genevieve Termier, Marcellin Boule, Andre Cailleux, Camille Arambourg, Paul Henri Fischer, Maurice Cossmann, Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps, Charles Deperet, Christian Mathis, Albert-Felix de Lapparent, Philippe Taquet, Michel Laurin, Auguste Pomel, Joseph Henri Ferdinand Douville, Serge Legendre, Rene Lavocat. Excerpt: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (French pronunciation: May 1, 1881 - April 10, 1955) was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of both Piltdown Man and Peking Man. Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere. Some of his ideas came into conflict with the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and several of his books were censured. Teilhard's primary book, The Phenomenon of Man, set forth a sweeping account of the unfolding of the cosmos. He abandoned traditional interpretations of creation in the Book of Genesis in favor of a less strict interpretation. This displeased certain officials in the Roman Curia and in his own order who thought that it undermined the doctrine of original sin developed by Saint Augustine. Teilhard's position was opposed by his Church superiors, and some of his work was denied publication during his lifetime by the Roman Holy Office. The 1950 encyclical Humani generis condemned several of Teilhard's opinions, while leaving other questions open. More recently, Pope John Paul...