The “Omega Point” Revisited from the New Tree of Life and the Ecological Crisis
The “Omega Point” Revisited from the New Tree of Life and the Ecological Crisis

Summary/Abstract: According to Teilhard de Chardin, the process of the universe and life will culminate in the “Omega Point”. His optimistic evolutionary worldview finds two difficulties in our times: first, Phylogenetics considers Life as a forest or a network, undermining thus the image of an endpoint; second the ecological crisis leads to think about the likelihood of the disappearance of part of the biosphere and even the Homo sapiens. This probability seems to contradict the trend towards a concentration point of all the biogenesis and noogenesis. However, it is possible to rethink the “Omega Point” theory from these new lines of thought.

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