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Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
Riverhead Hardcover
October 2007
On Sale: October 4, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 1594489564
EAN: 9781594489563
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Non-Fiction Biography
In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of
anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young
French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
uncovered a pre-human skull. The find quickly became known
around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the
missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon
ancestors. It also became a provocative piece of evidence in
the roiling debate over creationism versus evolution.
For Teilhard, both a scientist and man of God, the
discovery also exposed a deeply personal conflict between
the new science and his faith. He was commanded by his
superiors to deny all scientific evidence that went against
biblical teachings, and his writing and lectures were
censored by the Vatican. But his curiosity and desire to
find connections between scientific and spiritual truth kept
him investigating man's origins. His inner struggle, and, in
turn, his public rebuke by the Catholic Church personified
one of the central debates of our time: How to reconcile an
individual's commitment to science and his commitment to his
faith.
In The Jesuit and the Skull,
bestselling author Amir D. Aczel vividly recounts the
discovery of Peking Man and its repercussions, and how
Teilhard de Chardin's scientific work helped to open the
eyes of the world to new theories of humanity's origins that
alarmed the traditionalists within the Church. A deft mix of
narrative history and a poignant personal story, The Jesuit
and the Skull brings fresh insight to a debate that still
rages today.
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