We must arrive at a fuller consciousness of the Universe that encompasses us, and if our capacity to influence its development by our action.

“Love one another, recognizing in the heart of each of you the same God who is being born.” These words, first spoken 2000 years ago, now begin to reveal themselves as the essential structural law of what we call progress and evolution.

Our modern world was created in less than 10,000 years, and in the past 200 years it has changes more than in all the preceding millennia. Have we ever thought what our planet may be like, psychologically, in a million years’ time?

In Man, for the first time on earth, consciousness has coiled back upon itself to become thought. This is how the thinking layer of the earth, the Noosphere, can rapidly into being.

Faith in Man can and indeed must cast us at the feet and into the arms of One who is greater than ourselves.

My life as a paleontologist has given me a different lens to perceive the future. Different from the historian, economist or even the philosopher.

We have no reason to think that cosmogenesis has now reached its full and final term and from now on everything will stay just as it is until the end of time.

The reason why the idea of evolution is of such great importance is that it points us to the fundamental and dynamic unity of the oneness of our world.

How can we, because we must, reconcile and provide mutual nourishment for the love of God and the healthy love of the world, a striving towards detachment and a striving towards the enrichment of human lives?

How will the human species evolve? In which direction is this process of evolution going to move?

I make three demands of modern theology: To be open to the new perspectives of the natural sciences. To make the effort to transpose Christian dogma into the new picture we have if the world. And to ponder seriously on the religious value of human endeavor in the temporal plane

It is perfectly true that the Cross means going beyond the frontiers of the sensible world and even, in a sense, breaking with it.

The sacramental Species are formed by the totality of the world, and the duration of the creation is the time needed for its consecration.

It is almost a commonplace today to find people who, quite naturally and unaffectedly, live in the explicit consciousness of being an atom or a citizen of the universe.

Is the Christ of the gospels, imagined and loved within the dimension of the Mediterranean world, capable of still embracing and still forming the center of our prodigiously expanded universe?

Consider the great symbolic gesture of baptism in the general history of mattter. Christ immerses himself in the waters of the Jordan, symbol of the forces of the earth. These he sanctifies. As he emerges, with the water which runs off his body he elevates the whole world.

Mankind is evolution become conscious of itself.