Achieving a knowledge of Purpose Driven Evolution, an understanding of the importance of the human person, me, in the development of the Earth. What if "seeing correctly" is the only way for me to see my real place in the development of the Earth. What if in order to see myself completely and correctly I have to see myself as part of humanity, humanity as part of life, and life as part of the universe. As the title Teilhard de Chardin: The Search For The Light In Evolution suggests, the e-Book/Audio Book is a presentation of Teilhard de Chardin's concept of Purpose Driven evolution. As the e-Book/Audio Book covers illustrations show, "In the beginning was The Fire - The Big Bang" - the physical world thrust into existence and motion by The Light. All of creation is Purpose Driven. Darwin's famous thesis that evolution proceeds by chance, groping, and the survival of the fittest could be the case until the advent of the first human, the first creature who knew that he knew. Thereafter continuing change becomes more and more by plan. The human being begins to take charge of evolution. There is still some chance and groping but much of it is really planned trial that results in either success or failure and we try again. God, The Light, is the architect of all that is. His will, when manifested, becomes the purpose behind everything both the inanimate, the animate, and the thinking layers or spheres - of the universe. In the e-Book's/Audio Book's presentations of Teilhard de Chardin's Purpose Driven Evolution, the author uses chronological evolution as the outline as we observe the foundations of our universe and the unfolding of the phenomenon of "Man." The evolutionary process as explained in the Human Phenomenon, a new edition of deChardin's The Phenomenon of Man (1965 English edition), as edited and translated from the French 1955 edition by Sarah Appleton Weber in 1999, is categorized under four parts: I: Prelife, II: Life, III: Thought, and IV: Superlife Can a committed Christian believe in the concept (theory of Evolution)? What does the Search for the Light in Evolution reveal about my place as a person in the development of the Earth? Read the e-Book and/or listen to the Audio Book to find the answers.
About the Author: Bernard J. Fleury Ed.D. Author of Light Book series that will enlighten you. Here's the meet Bernard video: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2gHhJGDOeE I am Professor Emeritus at Westfield State University and a Roman Catholic Permanent Deacon. I have an A.A. degree in Classical Languages, a B.A. in History, a M.S. in Elementary Education with a minor in Philosophy, and an Ed.D. in Administration with a minor in Government. I taught in both the undergraduate and graduate divisions at Westfield State University for thirty years and was a Public School teacher and principal for thirteen years. I also served as Director of School Administration at Westfield State University, and as Director of Teacher Education, Academic Vice President, and President protem at International College of the Cayman Islands over a sixteen-year period. At present I am a corporator in the Westfield State University Foundation. I have worn a third hat as an ordained Catholic Permanent Deacon for the past thirty three years. For the past several years I have been devoting my retirement to nonfiction writing, nearly all of which is on the theme of Light as a Someone and a Something. We are all Called Into Life By The Light. Life and Light are tied together. Lifelight describes their relationship best because both our "without" (our physical being) and our "within" (our spirit) are basically light in two different forms: 1. Physical energy that occupies space, has weight, can be measured, and... 2. Psychic or spiritual energy which is a force that causes things to happen and, thus, real energy, but it does not occupy space, have weight, or be empirically measured. That is what we humans are: complex, amazing, wonderful creatures, made in the image and likeness of God for our own sakes, to know, love, and serve him in this life, and be with him forever in heaven. As the titles of my books in the Light series indicate, I explore what light is as a Someone and Something in a number of areas of human experience. My wife Ludmila and I live on a small farm in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains in Western Massachusetts. We have two adult children and one grandson.