Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Ken Armstrong <armstron AT ohiou.edu>]

At 01:32 AM 2/28/2008, Nikkibar AT aol.com wrote:
> Mr. Larson is right about Walker's nervousness over Tielhard du Chardin. I 
> tried to get him to read the later works on a number of occasions and he 
> seemed uninterested although I secretly suspected that he might have 
> dipped into the earlier works but didn't want to waste talking time on the 
> matter. I never discussed Monad with him as that was one I missed myself.

  I read Teilhard 30 years ago whilst riding buses to & from work in San 
Francisco. Had never heard of him prior, but found his books in those 
wonderful Bay Area book stores. McLuhan, apparently like Percy, was also 
seriously skeptical of Teilhard de Chardin. For myself, his understanding 
of evolution only made sense. Ever since I've not understood the need to 
draw an opposition between science and religion based on evolution, or I 
should say I don't accept it. It seems a naivete on both sides.

 Nice to see Percy-L percolating again.

Ken A