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Every time de Chardin name pops up, I always remember this filmed discussion with Richard Dawkins :

    As a student, I was very persuaded by that old French theologian, teilhard de chardin, who wrote a book called the phenomenon of man, which is...Pretentious gibberish,, but it fooled me when I was a student.

Not that I agree with him. It just makes me smile.

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My understanding is that Catholic theologians generally don't hold old Teilhard in high esteem either, to put it nicely. Not that Dawkins is some grand intellect himself, especially when he weighs in on theological and philosophical matters. Painful, painful high school caliber ignorance.

As one of the progenitors of "New Age" currents [0], you bet Catholic theologians don't like him. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin#Inf...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age#Christian_perspectives

Are you religious/believe in God or god's?

Dawkins. A typical English rodomontade?