Teilhard divides the history of the world into four distinct stages:
The emergence of the Biosphere . Matter becomes organized enough to reproduce and adapt, creating a "film" of living organisms over the Earth. The phenomenon of man
This is Teilhard’s most famous concept. Just as life created the Biosphere, human thought creates a third layer: the Noosphere . This is a collective web of thought, culture, and communication (a concept often cited as a prophetic precursor to the Internet) that begins to envelop the planet. The Omega Point Teilhard divides the history of the world into
The era of "blind" matter and elemental particles. Even here, Teilhard argues that a "within" exists in a nascent state. Just as life created the Biosphere, human thought
During his life, the Catholic Church forbade Teilhard from publishing his philosophical works, fearing his ideas veered too close to pantheism or downplayed the concept of Original Sin. Simultaneously, some in the scientific community criticized him for injecting mysticism into evolutionary biology.