“[E]volution has progressed by a series of creative unions. . . . Subatomic particles unite to form atoms, atoms unite to form molecules, molecules unite to form cells, and cells unite to form organisms. . . . It is because we can look back and see the pattern, see it recurring, that . . . we can legitimately extrapolate and project the pattern into the future, looking forward to another creative union in which we will be the uniting elements. . . . [But] at this point, evolution meets a situation that is unique in its history: the uniting elements, in our case, are free agents. . . . Thus the union, the new being, the next creative advance of evolution, will come about only if we freely consent to form it . . . a being born of our voluntary togetherness that will be able to do things that we singly cannot do.”
—Beatrice Bruteau, from an interview in What Is Enlightenment? magazineRead an interview with the Teilhardian evolutionary theorist Dr. Beatrice Bruteau in the Fall 2006 issue of What Is Enlightenment?